<p>ok, except thats not true...the marking basis of the sat's and iq are not that simmilar...the iq is centered more around problem solving and practical thinking</p>
<p>I think the SAT before the 1995 recentering had correlations with IQ scores. However, today it's all *****ed.</p>
<p>As for talking about your IQ on an app, I don't think theres a way to do it without sounding like an ass hole. Saying your in MENSA wouldnt though.</p>
<p>The original poster wrote, in a reply to another participant in the thread, "the iq is centered more around problem solving and practical thinking." </p>
<p>Thanks for providing my laugh for the day. The only problem with that statement is its lack of factual basis. Just recently I have been reading Educational and Psychological Measurement and Evaluation 6th ed. by Kenneth D. Hopkins and Julian C. Stanley, a standard textbook on various kinds of mental testing. Even though that particular edition of that textbook is old (it was published probably before you were born), it is quite up to date on the strengths and weaknesses of IQ tests and other tests of scholastic aptitude. There is a REASON why Stanley, who originated talent search testing a while before that edition of his book, PREFERRED SAT I scores of young test-takers to IQ scores for identifying the most able students in the United States. The Study of Exceptional Talent (SET) </p>
<p><a href="http://www.jhu.edu/gifted/set/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jhu.edu/gifted/set/index.html</a> </p>
<p>has a long history now, and through that study Stanley and his fellow researchers have become acquainted with a very large percentage of all the smartest young people in the United States and their paths to career development. I have met several SET participants, young people who score above 700 on one or the other of the sections of SAT I before their thirteenth birthdays, and they are generally intellectually active, thoughtful young people, good college material for the top colleges. </p>
<p>I earlier suggested to you some books on IQ testing </p>
<p><a href="http://learninfreedom.org/iqbooks.html%5B/url%5D">http://learninfreedom.org/iqbooks.html</a> </p>
<p>and I repeat my suggestion that you really ought to read and THINK about the recommended books on that online bibliography before concluding too much too soon about the meaning of IQ tests. People who evaluate college admission applications have heard often over the years from kids who claim to have sky-high IQs. As always, the next question for such applicants is "What have you done with your high IQ lately?" There are many opportunities for young people to demonstrate problem-solving and practical thinking in settings much more realistic and competitive than taking a child IQ test. Basically, the kind of Ivy League colleges to which you aspire (good luck in your application, by the way) will be looking for evidence of major national-level ECs or self-selected TOUGH academic courses if you want to show that you are intellectually ready for the Ivy League. What IQ score you once had is largely irrelevant to that. I think it would HURT your application to even mention an IQ score on it--I don't suggest to my son that he put his IQ score on college applications, but rather to develop a good track record in major academic activities of national prominence. What I tell my son is, "Your IQ score and the price of a cup of coffee can get you a cup of coffee wherever coffee is sold." In other words, NOBODY can be counted on to be impressed by an IQ score alone. It's always best to do something challenging and helpful in the real world if you want to impress people with your potential. </p>
<p>Good luck in the application process. How about letting your childhood IQ score be your little secret that you tell to your spouse some day?</p>