<p>They asked the same question on the Harvard page and the first answer was “me”.</p>
<p>Typical LOL.</p>
<p>No one brought up Erik Demaine? He’s in the EECS department and became an MIT faculty member at the age of 20 (bachelor’s at age 14), the school’s record.</p>
<p>^ Yeah I wanted to mention Demaine but he isn’t a MIT alum…=p</p>
<p>For some reason, top schools never seem to enroll seriously underage prodigies.</p>
<p>I don’t think grades reflect how smart you are at MIT:</p>
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<li><p>for one, the difficulty/load of classes people take at MIT vary ENORMOUSLY. I know many people here who could easily pull of 5.0’s without having to work much by picking carefully which classes to take (and when to take them), and not overloading.</p></li>
<li><p>I am much, much more impressed by people here with no background in one subject, who starts taking advanced classes in that subject and acing it. It takes a whole lot of brain re-wiring to take a difficult subject in another field with little background in it. A typical example would be a physics major taking 18.404 for “fun” (complexity theory). Or a froshy who takes quantum II (8.05) : this is actually surprisingly common here.</p></li>
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