<p>I'm not talking about a person out of college, but is the smartest person you have met in high school or college?</p>
<p>For instance:</p>
<p>The smartest person I know took the SAT when she was a Freshman, and got 1600. She then left high school in Junior year with a 4.0 Unweighted to go to MIT. She is now at Stanford for graduate school.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering because I'm interested in people with astounding genius.</p>
<p>The top 10 people on my list all happen to be professors…</p>
<p>my high school bio teacher. On the first day, she told us that the stuff College Board expects us to know is too easy, and that she came up with her own curriculum and labs.</p>
<p>“Who’s the smartest person you have ever met?”</p>
<p>Me.</p>
<p>My AP European History teacher. You could ask him anything, I mean like anythng even unrelated to history and he had an answer. He also happens to be my favorite teacher.</p>
<p>I’m not sure, a guy I played baseball with sophmore year in Highschool (he was a senior) was taking all AP’s senior year, simply beccause he wanted to. He had a 4.0 un- wieghted GPA and im sure much more. He was also the best baseball player in the leauge, and was ranked as the #1 Freshman player in D3 college last year. He was #1 in his class and got a full ride to University of Chicago. Talented and insanely smart.</p>
<p>My Probabilities and Statistics professor in university.</p>
<p>That guy was amazingly smart and was by far the most interesting professor I’ve had during my three years in college so far.</p>
<p>my history teacher, not just for school smarts but for his amazing life experiences, and my brother (who insults me all the time:( )</p>
<p>This girl I met at mathcamp. She’s on the U.S. Physics Olympiad Traveling Team.</p>
<p>I’ve never met anyone smart enough to wow me, or make me remember them.</p>
<p>My idea of smart goes above and beyond schooling. I don’t consider someone with a great SAT score and a 3.8 at an IVY to be smart, necessarily. If they have no social skills, can’t change a tire, don’t know how to cook at all, can’t wash their own clothes, etc, I’m not all that impressed.</p>
<p>I’ve met plenty of school smart people but their lack of intelligence in just about every other aspect of life was mind boggling.</p>
<p>So no one yet, but maybe its because I’m not smart enough to meet the super smart people.</p>
<p>My brother is the smartest person I’ve ever met. He has a perfect memory. Perfect. It’s impossible to argue with him, because he knows everything. He surfs wikipedia in his free time and thus is full of random facts. He knows everything about everything. He is incredible at solving math/physics problems, he’s like Spock in that his logic is impeccable. And yet he’s personable and likable.</p>
<p>My brother got a 1560 on his SAT and he has about a 3.0 at his community college. But if you talked to him for 60 seconds you would know what I mean immediately. He rules. :D</p>
<p>This kid I knew at my school. He was the stereotypical different thinking genius. During class he would research and learn things he was interested in and not pay attention. Then he would ace the tests, in like AP Calc BC and AP Physics. He didn’t really try or even think about the ACT but got a 36 in all sections. He worked proofs on his own in class of problems our calc teacher didn’t even learn till advanced college math classes at UIUC. He was able to learn spanish fluently without really thinking about it.</p>
<p>A guy who works at my youth group. He went to film school in California and now owns a bike shop in the Midwest. </p>
<p>I have no idea what he got on his SATs. He probably never had a chance at Harvard. He’ll never get a doctorate. But I have learned more from him than from most of my teachers combined. He doesn’t just have intelligence and knowledge- he has wisdom.</p>
<p>And, no, I am not kidding.</p>
<p>Similar to raincoat, aced SAT in freshmen year, won every math competition he went to, and a few collegiate competitions he found mistakes on the tests haha Had to take math classes from the local university starting sophomore year, as no teacher at our shool was capable of teaching him what he didnt already know. He went to MIT, came back after freshmen year and was a professor with his own personal office at local university where he won a full ride to numerous times before at math competitions in high school. In his 3rd year there, and has a 4.0 and is the curve setter haah I wish… although a little socially inept lol</p>
<p>Terence Tao.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao</a></p>
<p>nuff said.</p>
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<p>When I saw this thread I immediately thought of my APEH teacher, too. He knows everything. Apparently everyone at my school has been trying to get him to go on Jeopardy for years.</p>
<p>My grandfather ties for smartest person. He’s a retired engineer and has traveled the world.</p>
<p>My platoon sergeant in the army. He knew how to work people psychologically. That is an extremely rare gift that comes with experience and smarts. Seriously, I learn every time that I remember what he would say. </p>
<p>What good is a flawless memory if you’re not interesting? Appled knowledge is intelligence, not something you can see on a transcript.</p>
<p>A Moldavian guy who got admitted to Harvard at age of 14 or something… he deferred the admission to keep participate in more IMOs and have 3 gold medals with 2 perfect scores and special prize.</p>
<p>My Uncle graduated with honors at Stanford in Biology and got a stipend to attend Mayo Medical School in an accelerated 6 year MD/Ph.D. program. He now has his own lab at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Research center which is the largest of its kind in the country and recently created what he calls a “supercell” in his lab that completly cured cancerous tumors in mice.</p>
<p>I met a Nobel Laureate in Phsyics. After him, Mallory A. Dwinal, Gig Harbor, is a senior at Northwestern University with majors in
Spanish, economics, and international studies. She also studied in Qinghua University in
Beijing. In 2006, Mallory founded a program that coordinates and funds English as a second
language education in Chicago elementary schools. Also since 2006, she has been leader of a
daily meals program at a homeless shelter. She is ranked among the top college students in
the country in impromptu and extemporaneous speaking. Mallory plans to do the M.Phil. in
comparative and international education at Oxford.</p>