Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!sjuvax!bbanerje From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Any Mensans? Message-ID: <681@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 08:26:15 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.681 Posted: Thu Nov 29 08:26:15 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 06:01:31 EST References: <1708@ucf-cs.UUCP> <3300001@down.FUN><530@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> <512@ccice2.UUCP> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 32 >> > When I was an undergradute about 80% of the residents of my dorm >> > decided to check out membership in Mensa. *ALL* qualified, and >> > *NONE* joined. >> > _____________________________________________________ >> >> What are the qualification requirements? Can't say what they are specifically. Essentially, you have to be mentally gifted and have an IQ in the 95th percentile bracket (approx. figures). When I was in Grad school a couple of years ago, I decided to check it out. As my IQ on all the standard tests works out fairly low (Just above average), I knew that my chances of acceptance weren't too good. Well, it seems that there is a loophole! Should you score higher than some threshold value on the College Boards, or on your GRE's, you're in. Well, I sent them my GRE scores (~1450 combined) and was accepted. I didn't join either. As Groucho would have said - " I don't want to join any organization that accepts me as a member" :=) Actually, from the literature they send, it seems to be an elitist and self-centered group. Mensans hang out with mensans because non mensans are so incredibly dull, boring and boorish. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were maladjusted individuals who couldn't interact with society as a whole; and therefore form their own little society. -- Binayak Banerjee {allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerje P.S. Send Flames, I love mail.