How ''gifted'' techers need to be?

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Are all techers gifted in Math/Science? How ''gifted'' are they? (IQ? SAT?)
Or, a geniue passion to Sciences/ Math is all a techer need?</p>

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<p>You must be this much gifted to attend this university.</p>

<p>I don't really get what you're looking for. Yes you need to be good at science/math and have good scores in order to attend. Caltech's curriculum is quite difficult. Just liking science isn't going to be able to get you through if you can't do the work.</p>

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<p>You can look up the SAT figures for yourself in Caltech's Common Data Set filing. </p>

<p><a href="http://finance.caltech.edu/budget/cds2005.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://finance.caltech.edu/budget/cds2005.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>well, once a term we have a campus-wide talent show. some people choose to solve rubik's cubes in 10 seconds; others memorize pi to ten thousand digits. those who display no significant "gifts", as you say, are weeded out by this process, and these people get sent to MIT.</p>

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and these people get sent to MIT.

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<p>Oooohhhh snap!</p>

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<p>Speaking of cubes... I'm a cubist myself... and I'm wondering how good an average time of 60-70 seconds is....</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/events.php?eventId=333&regionId=&years=&show=All%2BPersons&average=Average%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/events.php?eventId=333&regionId=&years=&show=All%2BPersons&average=Average&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So, mentionable, but not great.</p>

<p>Within Caltech itself, the same. Mentionable, but not great.</p>

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<p>Eh, I'd say not even mentionable, no offense. But you can always improve, and there's people here that could help you improve if you wanted.</p>