<p>For the record, Feynman had an IQ of 120. Does pure intelligence really matter?</p>
<p>I think that at schools like Duke, you get students who are intelligent, but who don’t do much with their intelligence. MIT, Chicago, Caltech, Duke, Penn, and Northwestern might have students of (on average) approximately equal intellectual ability, but the former three schools undoubtedly have more students who are devoted to applying it than the latter three.</p>