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Yeah. The majority of people in elite colleges are probqbly in that range (since SAT scores are a reasonable IQ proxy).

by cm2012 8y ago

dogma1138 8y ago
Last time I’ve chdcked in the US Ivy League was only slightly above the “normal” IQ upper limit which is currently set at 115. 85-115 is considered “normal” with 85 being the lower limit for what one would consider a functional adult and 115 is the upper limit around which most of the successful professionals will be hanging around. Scoring in the top 2% of correctly normalized and clinically evaluated IQ tests is quite exceptional.
- cm2012 8y ago
  Check here: http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/koening2008.pdf http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/koening2008.pdf Page 4 has a graph. Since harvard and other elites average applicant math + reading is at least 64, probably closer to 70, IQ ia likely to be 125-130.
  - dogma1138 8y ago
    SAT scores do not actually correlate well to IQ scores directly and the higher you go the larger the actual distribution and variance is. In fact if we take your study then the 120-130 IQ range correlates to an ACT score range of between ~20 and ~70. If we take the ACT numbers they had for “study 2” which was conducted on 150 psychology students in a private university which is a highly selective group already you have an IQ range of 100-120 with the majority being between 105 and 115. A normalized average IQ across the three main domains (verbal, spatial and math) of 130 or higher is unlikely even for Harvard, the only real good study we have for Harvard is the Carson study which used psychometric tests to measure IQ and it got an average of 122 amongst PHD graduates in exact sciences. For all intents and purposes a clinical psychometric IQ score of 130 is exceptional even for elite school, STEM PHD graduates.
    - cm2012 8y ago
      This is an impressive answer, thank you.

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Yeah. The majority of people in elite colleges are probqbly in that range (since SAT scores are a reasonable IQ proxy).

by cm2012 8y ago

Yeah. The majority of people in elite colleges are probqbly in that range (since SAT scores are a reasonable IQ proxy).

dogma1138 8y ago
Last time I’ve chdcked in the US Ivy League was only slightly above the “normal” IQ upper limit which is currently set at 115. 85-115 is considered “normal” with 85 being the lower limit for what one would consider a functional adult and 115 is the upper limit around which most of the successful professionals will be hanging around. Scoring in the top 2% of correctly normalized and clinically evaluated IQ tests is quite exceptional.
- cm2012 8y ago
  Check here: http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/koening2008.pdf http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/koening2008.pdf Page 4 has a graph. Since harvard and other elites average applicant math + reading is at least 64, probably closer to 70, IQ ia likely to be 125-130.
  - dogma1138 8y ago
    SAT scores do not actually correlate well to IQ scores directly and the higher you go the larger the actual distribution and variance is. In fact if we take your study then the 120-130 IQ range correlates to an ACT score range of between ~20 and ~70. If we take the ACT numbers they had for “study 2” which was conducted on 150 psychology students in a private university which is a highly selective group already you have an IQ range of 100-120 with the majority being between 105 and 115. A normalized average IQ across the three main domains (verbal, spatial and math) of 130 or higher is unlikely even for Harvard, the only real good study we have for Harvard is the Carson study which used psychometric tests to measure IQ and it got an average of 122 amongst PHD graduates in exact sciences. For all intents and purposes a clinical psychometric IQ score of 130 is exceptional even for elite school, STEM PHD graduates.
    - cm2012 8y ago
      This is an impressive answer, thank you.