This day in history: Adragon De Mello was born on this day in 1976. It is claimed that Adragon De Mello has an IQ of 400...even though IQ tests don't really score that high. Adragon De Mello graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age 11. At the time, he was the youngest college graduate in U.S. history.
His early achievements may have been more due to endless hard work than to inherent intellectual capabilities. Much of the hype was due to his father, Agustin Eastwood De Mello. His father planned an ideal life for a "boy genius" before Adragon was born; it included not only graduating from college early, but also getting a doctorate in physics by age 12, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics by age 16, being elected a senator by age 20 (US senators must be at least 30 years old), becoming president of the United States by age 26 (the minimum age set by the US Constitution is 35), then head of a world government by age 30, and chairman of an intergalactic government after that. Since his father had set the goal that his son would become a Nobel Prize winner by age 16, he obsessively pushed his son in mathematics and other academic subjects from an early age. For example, when doing math homework, his father insisted that he solve an equation five times, even when he got the correct answer on the first attempt.
His father also sought publicity for his son. In 1987, while at university, Adragon and his father were interviewed by Morley Safer on 60 Minutes II. They also appeared on 48 Hours and The Tonight Show. During these interviews, Adragon would repeat the goals his father had chosen, saying he wanted to get a Ph.D. in physics and win a Nobel Prize by age 16 or 17.
When his father enrolled him in Popper-Keizer, a school for gifted children, standardized tests Adragon took suggested he was around the 85th percentile for students his age, where most students enrolled in such schools were in the 95th percentile. His father removed him from the school for gifted students "after tests showed the boy was less gifted than his father believed".
The father passed away in 2003, and Adragon De Mello now works as an estimator for a commercial painting company.
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