They?re well above average. None among the 88 winners of the Scripps competition are Nobel Prize winners or MacArthur geniuses, but spelling champions do have an impressive record. The last six to graduate from high school have attended college at Harvard, Cornell, MIT, Yale, Tufts, and Duke. They tend to collect graduate degrees and pick prestigious professions like doctor, engineer, or lawyer. If Nandipati becomes a psychiatrist or neurosurgeon, she?ll join a host of her peers who probe the human mind. Nupur Lala, who won the 1999 spelling bee and was featured in the film documentary Spellbound, went on to study cognitive science and language processing. 1978 champion Peg McCarthy is a clinical psychologist, and Irving Belz, who won in 1951, is a psychiatrist.
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