Since this is your actual score I do not see it as pretentious. Further I think colleges do care if you are smart. If SAT scores are used to assess your intelligence then why can’t this one be used? Having said that I am clearly in the minority so I would say no.
absolutely NOT.
If your teachers mention in their LOR’s that you are the smartest student they have ever had in their classroom- so much the better!
Thanks for the input everybody! @GMTplus7 I have a USAMO qualification with very high AIME and AMC 12 scores. Do you think that will provide as an elite achievement?
SAT scores are not used to assess your intelligence.
@yesman678 - yes, USAMO qualification, very high AIME and AMC 12 scores are terrific and will definitely help your chances significantly. Well done–certainly more of an accomplishment than an IQ score.
Boorish, pretentious, and socially tone-deaf. Don’t do it. If you are really that bright, it should be reflected in your accomplishments. If it’s not reflected in your accomplishments, then no one cares.
Adcomns at elite schools seem dismissive of high test scores in and of themselves, and often point out they turn away applicants w perfect SATs.
Now if u had leveraged your super math smarts to tutor underprivileged children, that would be more appealing to them.
IMHO, I would never include that on a college application. Testing PG is just that. Having the PG designation shows nothing more than the fact that you have the innate intelligence to be successful if you so desire. In MOST cases, hard work trumps innate intelligence any day of the week.
I disagree that SAT scores are not used to assess intelligence, albeit indirectly, but regardless of that if SAT scores are used in the admissions process for whatever reason I do not see why intelligence measures cannot be used. It is not as if intelligence doesn’t matter.
You’re not as smart as you think you are, if you even ask.
Sounds like OP doesn’t know what top colleges look for.
Also, it is a measure for which there is no test prep. It is valuable in that way. I honestly don’t understand why showing an intellectual aptitude is socially a problem. If you said you had perfect pitch you would not have received half of these comments. Though I do agree that if you said you hasw perfect pitch you had better be using it or it would not matter. My guess is that the rest of your app reflects the IQ. If not definitely don’t use it.
^ Because this isn’t any indication of how a kid will fit and thrive on campus. Take a better look at what your target colleges want.
And being so beholden to some IQ test is, in itself, not a smart show of critical thinking, one’s judgment skills, or operating sense.
Probably no studies have been done, but I’d guess that USAMO qualification and your AIME score have a higher correlation with high IQ than that more recent incarnations of the SAT. I’d think adcoms are aware of that. Listing Prometheus Society (or even MENSA unless it is something where you organize activities) would come across as pretentious and a marker for low EQ, as others have said or implied.
Once you have something like USAMO qualifier, your next job is to show adcoms that you are also a nice person.
In all honesty, putting that on your list will have little to no influence on the admissions officers’ decision. Colleges want passion, not stagnating smarts. If you’ve done something with your intelligence and you’re working toward a goal you feel passionate about, that’s probably n times more effective than simply saying you’ve been classified as “smart” by some group’s standards. I don’t know why it would hurt, but it definitely is not a “hook” if it stands alone in your application.
Good luck, though!
Nice, engaged in various ways, and not unilateral. I’m really shaking my head here.
Nope, arrogant and pretentious.
Give the adcoms some credit please. They are smarter than you think they are.
Honestly, you’ve still got another year! If I were you, I would get involved in the society. Taking a test is not an EC. Volunteering with the organization, doing competitions in the organization and applying that membership for the benefit of your community, that is an EC. So make it one !
Another option would be to discuss in your essay the struggle of people defining your aptitude and intelligence by these exams instead of by who you are and what you’re interested in. You could make a great essay about that!
I would include it! but make sure you don’t boast about it elsewhere…
Congratulations on such a high IQ!
If I were an admissions officer I would almost certainly admit you based on that kind of prodigious IQ score!
it shows that you are a rare asset worthy of being treasured!
The challenge with including it is that only a certain segment gets tested in the first place (I have no idea what is my IQ). So you may get an AO who wonders why this was a metric that you/your parents spent time on when there are already so many required alternatives. Unless you have a demonstrated leadership and/or humanity role in Mensa/equivalent organization – or even a story to tell around taking it, overcoming adversity, etc. – seems like you are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Hmm, Mensa stories to tell… From my memories in the '80s, you might not want to tell those stories… Though I hear the behavior has become more mainstream, and fewer hot tubs are involved.
My son had double CTY Grand awards at the bottom of a resume he used for a summer program after HS freshman year and the research he is doing now. Probably didn’t mean anything to anyone, though. It won’t be on in the future, because that was a test he took in jr high. (Not at the same level as Prometheus. I remember OMNI Magazine ran a Prometheus Society test back in the 80s.)