<p>Is the SAT still accepted as admission to Mensa, out of curiosity? Or did you say they don't use it anymore?</p>
<p>A genius autistic kid I know just scored a 2100... In 7th grade.</p>
<p>Speaking of geniuses, check this out:</p>
<p><a href="http://giga.iqsociety.org/intro.htm%5B/url%5D">http://giga.iqsociety.org/intro.htm</a></p>
<p>Is anyone here 1 in a billion?</p>
<p>Coming from a midwesterner redneck (minus the latter), anything above a 27 is considered good. I got a 31, the highest in my class, and everyone treats me like some mega-genius. I laugh at them, because on CC, a 31 is average at best, lol!</p>
<p>Isn't perfectly inane that we should compare someone?s IQ to his or her SAT score? Academic achievement and a measure of it cannot justify itself in ratio or deviation IQ. Furthermore, on a measure of vocab. the tendency for the high genius and profound genius to score higher is due to their interest in reading. Alternatively, when I recently took the test for the High IQ society there was a section for "General Knowledge." Why is it? Well, good sir, it was because high geniuses and profound geniuses were likely to read a lot and thus have the required knowledge to know who the King of Italy was in a certain year.</p>
<p>It's funny how the guy who started the giga society claims his test can measure 1 in a hundred billion.</p>
<p>Actually, IQ test and SAT do not correlate much. High SAT scorers necessarily does not have high IQ. Yet, High IQ scorers do have high SAT scores. Backward logic. I know someone who skipped three grades in my class. He got a 2400 in one of his practice test. Not surprising? He finished the test in one hour.</p>
<p>SAT hardly has much correlation with intelligence, in my opinion. I think there are many geniuses who get low sat scores and many people who took kaplan or are good test takers who score 2300^. There are many different kinds of thinking, and the SAT mostly calls for linear thinking, which is not everyone's best area. People who get 2400s arent necessarily above average in intelligence. In 7th grade I got a 1480/1600 on my sat and my junior year I got a 2350/2400, but I don't have straight A's, so I just attribute that to good SAT-taking skills.</p>
<p>ky9742, the fact that you don't have straight As is irrelevant. School has nothing to do with intelligence whereas the SAT does measure it a bit.</p>
<p>SAT is rudimentary knowledge of what we learn at school. Like Ashraf said, it will only measure a bit. A true genius will be shown after their career starts. A Nobel Prize will determine a genius.</p>
<p>^^ Well said.</p>
<p>SAT is rudimentary knowledge of what we learn at school. Like Ashraf said, it will only measure a bit. A true genius will be shown after their career starts. A Nobel Prize will determine a genius.</p>
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<p>Then again at the other extreme, those who don't get Nobel Prizes doesn't mean that they aren't geniuses. Also, many geniuses prefer to keep their knowledge to themselves (which I think of as pointless) but are still smart.</p>
<p>A genius would be determined when he or she contributes to the society immensely and wins a Nobel Prize. If a 'genius' keeps his or her knowledge to him or herself and sleeps all day, that person should not be referred to as a genius.</p>
<p>And for the logic, Nobel Prize is only one of the qualifications to determine a genius.</p>
<p>I don't see a correlation between a person's IQ and a person's SAT score. You can have a higher than average IQ and not have a really high SAT score. Most people probably do but I don't see a clear direct correlation.</p>
<p>Someone who doesn't know much English will score poorly on the SAT and may have a genius IQ.</p>
<p>Nobel prize, fields medal, influential products, etc. are all what truly define genius. Silly psychometric or academic testing merely show 'potential'. It's what you do with it that counts in the end.</p>
<p>There are thousands of students who get perfect or close to perfect SAT scores; there are not thousands of geniuses.</p>
<p>Richard Feynman had an IQ of 125, yet he won a Nobel Prize, was a Putnam fellow, and is considered by almost everyone in the field of physics a genius. </p>
<p>Compare that to, say, Chris Langan, the guy with an IQ of 190+. He works in a bar last time I checked and he writes crackpot theories that predict nothing.</p>
<p>^^ Well said, it's about what one does that counts because tests are ultimately flawed in one way or another to measure true academic potential.</p>
<p>anything above a 120 is an amazing IQ, so the case of Feynman is not surprising. </p>
<p>I once saw a lady with an IQ of 180 something and she was a broke journalist for a lame local newspaper</p>