01/07/2025
Elonmusk’s college-admissions test scores were not especially notable.
On his second round of the SAT tests, he got a 670 out of 800 on his verbal exam and a 730 on math. He narrowed his choices to two universities that were an easy drive from Toronto: Waterloo and Queen’s.
"Waterloo was definitely better for engineering, but it didn’t seem great from a social standpoint," he says. "There were few girls there."
He felt he knew computer science and engineering as well as any of the professors at both places, but he desperately desired a social life.
"I didn’t want to spend my undergraduate time with a bunch of dudes."
So in the fall of 1990 he enrolled at Queen’s.
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