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Originally Posted by Lady Sage
Can I see your MENSA card? I have never seen one and wonder what they look like. It is a very prestigious honor to be considered a member of MENSA, so of course if you qualified you joined. You must be so proud.  |
Cute, but as I posted in another thread in this forum I never joined. I looked up the Illinois chapter a several years ago, and decided it wasn't a fun crowd so why pay annual dues for something you wouldn't use? That would be pretty stupid now, don't you think?
MENSA is not very hard to get into, while its the 98 percentile in IQ, that roughly translates to about a 92-94% on a national standardized test like the GRE.
Sign me up!!!
People who want to hang out with others only because they test well isn't going to be a fun crowd.
I view it more as a last ditch social club for adult nerds, but its also something that everyone would recognize as being a good score. Saying 'I studied only a week for the GRE and still qualified for the masters program for every orthodontic school I applied to' doesn't really say much to someone who doesn't know the standards.
Lately though I have been thinking of joining, I'd need to retest, the GRE doesn't have scores earlier than 2001 anymore for some reason. I would do so just so I could impress some of the less educated potential patients that come into my office as its almost universally recognized. Personally I think it would be a bit pretentious so I haven't made up my mind yet.
All I know is that they don't have my kind of parties, for one thing no one is naked, for another I don't want to see them naked.
Thrilling! A CSI party!
They haven't changed apparently since I thought I might join in the 90's
