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  Born to William Gates, Sr and Mary Maxwell Gates in Seattle, Washington.
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  At age 13 his parents enrolled him at this school till he gradusted in 1973 with a SAT score of 1590 out of 1600.
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  Enrolled at Harvard in the autumn of 1973.
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  Left Harvard to help a friend at the softare company MITS.
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