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99 percentile on both the LSAT/SAT, common?

so i know a lot of you have 172+, and a lot also went to yal...
chestnut odious ape corner
  11/22/05
where does genius IQ supposedly start? 130? Is that 3 standa...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
Um... 130 seems a little low for genius. I've heard 160...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
So albert einstein barely qualified as a genius? Fascinating...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
What was his IQ? I think we can agree that Einstein woul...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
165
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
Eisnstein had 5 points to spare, so this would seem a reason...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
actually, I'm not even sure about my wild claim of 165; no c...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
135 is the typical cutoff
razzle fishy bawdyhouse cumskin
  11/22/05
Makes more sense. I would prefer 140 or 150 myself.
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
135 is like 97th percentile. I don't think of that as "...
razzle fishy bawdyhouse cumskin
  11/22/05
"where does genius IQ supposedly start? 130? Is that 3 ...
Grizzly comical famous landscape painting
  11/22/05
99.7/99.7
Twisted preventive strike
  11/22/05
The 99th percentile SAT score is only 1490 on the old scale.
Purple very tactful liquid oxygen piazza
  11/22/05
Only? Wow. Isn't that higher then the HYP median?
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
It's probably somewhat harder to score in the 99th percentil...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
What is a 166 now? Which percentile is that?
Vivacious locale becky
  11/22/05
94th/95th percentile.
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
I think it was 95th when I took it (that was my score-I know...
Vivacious locale becky
  11/22/05
It's good.
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
when i took the SAT way back when you needed a 760/760 to sc...
chestnut odious ape corner
  11/22/05
I think if you score above the 99th percentile on both tests...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
That score would put you in the 99th on each section, but yo...
Copper genital piercing
  11/22/05
FWIW, a 99th percentile SAT score supposedly puts you in the...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
So you would put it between a 177 and 180 LSAT score (assumi...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
Well, if you think about all the douches at T14's that crack...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
sweet.
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
Mensa website shows the difference in scores for different I...
deranged lime national bbw
  11/22/05
PSA: Mensa people aren't "geniuses" either -- the...
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
yeah this is true, MENSA is very TTT. It's like Boalt: both...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
Well said, though I kind of like Boalt for various reasons.
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
In fairness, I know nothing about the place other than that ...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
Is she really that bad?
arrogant mind-boggling immigrant
  11/22/05
She was at one point but may have mellowed. I never got dra...
sapphire jew chad
  11/22/05
I have among the highest SAT/LSAT combos on here, and I'm ce...
plum razzle-dazzle indian lodge old irish cottage
  11/22/05
I have a 99/99...and no, I don't consider myself a genius at...
cerebral idiotic pisswyrm point
  11/22/05
titcr unfortunately : (
Thriller incel gaming laptop
  11/22/05
almost everyone at a top law school.
charismatic black woman house
  11/22/05
i seirously doubt that even half of the people have a 99/99....
chestnut odious ape corner
  11/22/05
Terman's classification (the guy who wrote the Stanford-Bin...
Grizzly comical famous landscape painting
  11/22/05


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Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:38 AM
Author: chestnut odious ape corner

so i know a lot of you have 172+, and a lot also went to yale/harvard/etc. so how common is it to score in the 99 percentile in both the SAT/LSAT? and does it mean that you're a genius?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355393)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:44 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

where does genius IQ supposedly start? 130? Is that 3 standard deviations above the mean? I think 99th percentile is not very many standard deviations above the mean, but I've never scored low enough on a standardized test to wonder how many above a 99th percentile score is. Something like that, plus the extent to which you think SAT/LSAT correlates with IQ and the extent to which you think IQ measures genius at all accurately should help.

http://www.robertniles.com/stats/stdev.shtml - first link that came up on a search, suggests 3 ~ 99th percentile, so maybe you are a genius.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355411)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:49 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Um... 130 seems a little low for genius.

I've heard 160 for genius.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355426)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:00 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

So albert einstein barely qualified as a genius? Fascinating.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355474)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:01 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

What was his IQ?

I think we can agree that Einstein would qualify. What seems far less likely is that one out of very 100 people who take the SAT should qualify, since this would indicate thousands of newly identified "geniuses" every year. At that point, the word no longer means much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355483)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:02 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

165

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355490)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:04 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Eisnstein had 5 points to spare, so this would seem a reasonable cutoff. Hard to say that someone 35 points lower should also qualify.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355500)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:05 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

actually, I'm not even sure about my wild claim of 165; no clear google result.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355509)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:03 AM
Author: razzle fishy bawdyhouse cumskin

135 is the typical cutoff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355492)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:04 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Makes more sense. I would prefer 140 or 150 myself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355501)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:14 AM
Author: razzle fishy bawdyhouse cumskin

135 is like 97th percentile. I don't think of that as "genius" but that's usually where it's drawn. Terms liek "idiot" and "moron" also correspond to IQ's.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355546)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 12:55 PM
Author: Grizzly comical famous landscape painting

"where does genius IQ supposedly start? 130? Is that 3 standard deviations above the mean?"

3 SD above is 145 or 148 depending on the scale.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4356780)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 12:27 PM
Author: Twisted preventive strike
Subject: 99.7/99.7

And I'm not a genius.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4356574)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:39 AM
Author: Purple very tactful liquid oxygen piazza

The 99th percentile SAT score is only 1490 on the old scale.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355396)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:50 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Only? Wow. Isn't that higher then the HYP median?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355432)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:50 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

It's probably somewhat harder to score in the 99th percentile on the LSAT, FWIW.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355435)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:53 AM
Author: Vivacious locale becky

What is a 166 now? Which percentile is that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355442)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:53 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

94th/95th percentile.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355445)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:54 AM
Author: Vivacious locale becky

I think it was 95th when I took it (that was my score-I know, shitty for xoxo standards, but I did my best)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355447)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:55 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

It's good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355453)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:53 AM
Author: chestnut odious ape corner

when i took the SAT way back when you needed a 760/760 to score in the 99percentile which is a 1520. i'm pretty sure it fluctuates year by year.

but actually im more concerned with how common the 99/99 is, moreso than if you're a genius or not. i kinda was just wanting to see if the people who scored 99/99 thought of themselves as very very smart. :)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355443)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:56 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

I think if you score above the 99th percentile on both tests, you're probably pretty smart in (at least) certain areas, though probably not in all.

Just don't get your head swelled!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355457)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 10:09 AM
Author: Copper genital piercing

That score would put you in the 99th on each section, but your composite score could be lower than that to be in the 99th percentile composite.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355890)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 3:55 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

FWIW, a 99th percentile SAT score supposedly puts you in the 99.7th percentile overall in terms of IQ. (Not everyone takes the SAT.)

Still, without an official definition of genius, I don't think you can conclude anything. To me a genius is more like a 1 in 10,000 thing, or maybe one in 100,000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355451)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:02 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

So you would put it between a 177 and 180 LSAT score (assuming erroneously that everyone takes the LSAT, it measures genius, etc.)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355488)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:06 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Well, if you think about all the douches at T14's that crack 170, I think we can agree that doing that well doesn't make you a true "genius".

I'm not even sure everyone who gets over 177 is a genius, but that at least seems a little more arguable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355511)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:06 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

sweet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355514)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:05 AM
Author: deranged lime national bbw

Mensa website shows the difference in scores for different IQ tests for the magic 2% mark that they let in. Expect that the IQ number for "genius" varies quite a bit, depending on the exam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355508)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:07 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

PSA: Mensa people aren't "geniuses" either -- they're simply supposedly of "high IQ".

You can get into Mensa with a 163, I believe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355518)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:08 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

yeah this is true, MENSA is very TTT. It's like Boalt: both claim to be prestigious, yet let in a significant number of idiots.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355523)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:09 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Well said, though I kind of like Boalt for various reasons.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355527)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:10 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

In fairness, I know nothing about the place other than that perhaps the most annoying poster in the history of the universe goes there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355531)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:11 AM
Author: arrogant mind-boggling immigrant

Is she really that bad?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355537)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:14 AM
Author: sapphire jew chad

She was at one point but may have mellowed. I never got drawn into a protracted argument with her because I declined to respond to her more idiotic points, so others took them up, but still her presence in the T14 which in turn mooches on the prestige of HYSCCN and then HYS and then Y grates. What can I say, I'm a brain bigot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355543)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 4:38 AM
Author: plum razzle-dazzle indian lodge old irish cottage

I have among the highest SAT/LSAT combos on here, and I'm certainly not a genius.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355626)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 7:53 AM
Author: cerebral idiotic pisswyrm point

I have a 99/99...and no, I don't consider myself a genius at all.

Usually I just think that other people are stupid.

=D

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4355716)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 12:59 PM
Author: Thriller incel gaming laptop

titcr

unfortunately : (



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4356802)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 1:07 PM
Author: charismatic black woman house

almost everyone at a top law school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4356850)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 1:13 PM
Author: chestnut odious ape corner

i seirously doubt that even half of the people have a 99/99. the medians for all these schools are like 169 or whatever which doesn't even qualify for 99 lsat!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4356903)





Date: November 22nd, 2005 1:11 PM
Author: Grizzly comical famous landscape painting

Terman's classification (the guy who wrote the Stanford-Binet test):

140 and over; Genius or near genius

120-140; Very superior intelligence

110-120; Superior intelligence

90-110; Normal or average intelligence

80-90; Dullness

70-80; Borderline deficiency

Below 70; Definite feeble-mindedness

Wechsler says:

Very Superior 128

Superior 120-127

Bright Normal 111-119

Average 91-110

Dull Normal 80-90

Borderline 66-79

Defective 65



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=303772&forum_id=2#4356886)