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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.

The only person I’ve known to be in MENSA ( I laughed in his face when he told me; blamed it on having recently seen the MENSA episode of The Simpsons) was a Class of ‘84 MHS grad. ( don’t hold me to that...could be off a year either way).

What year did you graduate?