<p>Does anyone know how Zuckerberg did academically at Harvard before he dropped out?</p>
<p>Less than a 4.0: [Who's</a> Smarter: Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg? - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/whos-smarter-bill-gates-or-mark-zuckerberg/]Who’s”>Who's Smarter: Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg? - The New York Times)</p>
<p>"Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged that he had also skipped classes, in particular avoiding “Art in the Time of Augustus.”</p>
<p>When it came time for the end-of-term study period, he was too busy building the prototype of Facebook to bother to do the reading. So in an inspired last-minute save, he built a Web site with all of the important paintings and room for annotation. He then sent an e-mail message to the students taking the class offering it up as a community resource.</p>
<p>In a half an hour, the perfect study guide had self-assembled on the Web. Mr. Zuckerberg noted that he passed the course, but he couldn’t remember the grade he received."</p>
<p>Bill Gates took Math 55-- Zuckerberg’s courses weren’t nearly as challenging. I spoke to a friend to taught CS to each of the them-- he said-- no contest-- Gates.</p>
<p>But Zuckerberg won a classical diploma from Exeter-- a very big deal. He is no dummy by any stretch of the imagination…(and he was a classics concentrator at harvard before leaving…)</p>
<p>Wow. I guess Zuckerberg was just lucky, being at the right place at the right time to catch the windfall.</p>
<p>His college grades and application are protected by FERPA. Someone could leak that information–think Rick Perry and George W Bush’s leaked grades, but it would be illegal and grounds for prosecution.</p>
<p>I hope you’re not trying to correlate smartness and likeliness to success. Most inventors are not geniuses; most of them have the same cases as Mark. And most smart people just end up becoming normal Phd degree holders or high-end specialists with no astronomical fortune. Success takes more than just school-friendliness.</p>
<p>The data is very very clear that unless the goal is to go into academics there is NO statistical correlation between GPA and ANY measure of success–financial, who’s who membership, pulitzer prizes, happiness self reporting,etc. etc. This comes from Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College and computer scientist. So who cares who had the higher GPA. (BTW which is better-- A in Math 23 or B+ in Math 55? One gives a 4.0 and the other a 3.3–think about it…)</p>
<p>Oh no. He was not as smart as Bill. He will never get his diploma like Bill did. :p</p>