As per an email received from Mensa offices three days ago:
Beginning
Jan. 1, the most detailed information American Mensa will share with
prospective members on Admission Test scores is whether the scores qualify them
for Mensa membership or not.
Additionally, American Mensa will no longer be able to send test scores to current or former members. The change is necessitated by ethical and legal guidelines with the State of Texas as well as the American Psychological Association. A copy of raw scores — which doesn't include percentile ranks or IQ scores — may be requested by members for $15 before the close of business on Dec. 23. (The office will be closed Dec. 24 - Jan. 1.)
The change results
from a review of the limits and liabilities of our testing program necessitated
by 2017 revisions to American Psychological Association
(APA) guidelines,
as well as applicable Texas state laws and the ethical guidelines for
psychologists. Based on those updated APA guidelines, American Mensa’s
Supervisory Psychologist, Dr. Renee Lexow, is able to share testing data with
the organization under her license but not with individual candidates. To
protect American Mensa, Dr. Lexow has decided that the organization will no
longer share test score data with current, former, or potential members.
“We cannot, as
psychologists, give someone their test score without helping interpret it for
them,” Dr. Lexow said. “That is clear under the APA’s stringent ethical
guidelines. Our new restrictions will protect American Mensa as well as its
members and potential members.”
Candidates using Prior
Evidence, Local Group Testing, or Private Testing will be informed if they
scored at or above the 98th percentile. Those who do will be invited to join.
Current and past
members, however, will no longer receive past test scores. American Mensa will
be able to provide a report to other psychological agencies if the individual
completes and returns a Test Score Release
Authorization Form.
Sharing the testing information with another licensed psychologist is permitted
under APA guidelines.
Members may request a
copy of their raw scores — which do not include percentile ranks or IQ scores —
by calling the National Office at (817) 607-0060. Requests cost $15 and must be received
before the close of business on Dec. 23, 2020.
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The gist of the message is that no specific information- whether actual I.Q. assessment, or percentile placement -- will be delivered to members or prospective Mensa admission test takers from January 1st. In other words the latter will simply be informed they made it into Mensa - or they didn't - no other details. They can, however, access their raw scores - before being processed into percentile measures or I.Q. Nor will test score data any longer be shared with current, former or potential members, "to protect American Mensa."
For those who remain curious as to how their prior SAT or GRE scores translate into I.Q. check out the link below for estimations: http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/greiq.aspx
But please do note this "comparison" information (aptitude test score vs. I.Q.) was assembled independent of Mensa and the website is not affiliated with American Mensa, so we are clear.
Regarding prior SAT, GRE etc. test scores, recall that only a subset have been accepted as proper aptitude tests for Mensa admission. If you have SATs from 1974 through 1/31/94 you can qualify if your Verbal-Math total is 1250 . If before 1974, it needs to be 1300. If you're using the GRE (Graduate Record exam) prior to May, 1994, the total needs to be 1250. If after that date but before 10/2001 then the verbal, quantitative and analytic total must come to 1875. After 10/2001 it's no go, because those tests are now deemed content mastery only, not aptitude. (See link given below). You will either have to bring up an earlier SAT test, or take the Mensa test.
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