You know that before getting a sholarship to MIT, he graduated with his masters in 1983 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) with honors and some of the top grades and an average of 4.2 out of 5 in physics, chemistry, mechanics, maths etc. Aftonbladet reported his grades on the article below...
http://aftonbladet.se/temahogskola/article12225670.ab