Good enough for Mensa but not FCPS AAP program??

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Anonymous wrote:Mensa accepts IQs of only the 130s?? I'm shocked because,while it is above average, thatso all that is. Like a typical lawyer.

130 is at the second sigma, above average is below that.

I don't even know what this means.

Thanks for posting that- I have no idea what PP meant either...

Not PP. Second sigma refers to two standard deviations, which is way above average.

Geek here. Assuming that IQ of kids follow a Normal Distribution (bell-shaped and well behaved). Then 2 sigma away from mean, or 2 standard deviation above mean would mean that the kid is at top 2.5 percentile of the IQ distribution.

So then why does AAP reject kids with 130+? I know no one here is on the selection committee. It's rhetorical and the essence of OP's question, I think. No?

Historically, the cut off was at 10% of the local FCPS students taking the exam, which equated to between 130-134 on the CogAt -depending on the year. Fairfax County has more than its share of smart kids- so many do not need a special program as there are already plenty of peers in the base school.

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