I remember reading in an old MENSA bulletin that an IQ score of 160 put you into the top .1% category, which is supposedly the cutoff between highly intelligent and genius. But I wold have read that about 8 years ago or so--yeah 1996.

Now you have me looking up wierd stuff on the web.

Here's a link to all the intellectual societies and their qualifying minimums:

http://www.polymath-systems.com/inte.../hiqsocs2.html