College at Age Sixteen: What Is Intelligence For?

Simon's Rock College, and the Center for Talented Youth, and the challenge of gifted children

College at Age Sixteen: What Is Intelligence For? Simon's Rock College, and the Center for Talented Youth, and the challenge of gifted children Lydia Laurenson Sep 24, 2025 73 35 4 Share I’ve been writing some hard posts lately. This one’s going to be real hard. I’ll begin by telling you something that fills me with anxiety to say: In the late nineties, when I was a teenager, I took an online IQ test and got 159. At the time I didn’t think much of it. I was aware the number was high, but it didn’t occur to me to look at comparison charts or otherwise seek resources about what the number meant.

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