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To: fwdude
I made it in back in the 80s (yeah, I "read" Playboy's "Women of Mensa" article). Didn't really help except some folks thought I was being a braggy snog. lol

Wanna try something that sets you apart, try the Prometheus Society (only 1 in 25000 or so get in) instead of Mensa's 1 in 300 or whatever it is now.
3 posted on 08/08/2024 9:47:14 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Retrofitted

“Prometheus Society”

Oooh, that sounds esoteric and wicked. I like it!


4 posted on 08/08/2024 9:48:37 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: Retrofitted

One reason I want to achieve a Mensa membership is to shove it in the faces of leftists in various interactions who depict conservatives as backwards, knuckle-dragging neanderthals who could never graduate college.


5 posted on 08/08/2024 9:53:26 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: Retrofitted; gundog

Thanks for the info, although I think I’ll content my self with having official grounds for sneering at MENSA. I’ve benefitted from going to Cornell by being able to make snarky comments about the Ivy League for years.

If 1250 on the SAT qualified pre 1994 I don’t think it is one in 300. I scored 1450 on it my junior year and didn’t bother retaking it. The guy who ended up going to Harvard (three of us applied) scored 1440 and retook it. I’m sure at least 10, and probably more like 20, in our class would have topped 1250 (to begin with someone else likely beat both of us on the English side— my 710 having beat his 700—but her math would have held her back some-—but I’m sure she broke 530).

And that is from a class of only 400 (in grade 9—down to about 300 at the end of grade 12) at a school that was not known for breadth of intellectual achievement.


50 posted on 08/08/2024 12:27:39 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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