Exclusive society accepts Dagupeña
FOR HIGH IQ INDIVIDUALS
A YOUNG Dagupeña was granted membership in the exclusive MENSA Society, the oldest, largest, and best-known high IQ society where only test takers who score 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ test are admitted.
Colleen Sabina Arzadon Dalusong, 17, took the MENSA IQ test in Anaheim, California on November 19 and the results put her IQ score in the top 2 percent of the worldwide population.
Dalusong received a letter from MENSA dated Dec. 2, 2016 informing her of her admission and her test scores that had a RAIT Crystallized Intelligence Index –Raw Score 208/Percentile Rank 98.
Dalusong is the daughter of Edward Dalusong III and Awit Arzadon Dalusong, and granddaughter of Dr. Voltaire and Loreta Arzadon, owners of of Colegio de Dagupan. Edward and his late mother Claudette de Venecia-Dalusong, were former columnists of The PUNCH.
She attends Fairmont Preparatory Academy in Anaheim, California where she is in 11th Grade, enrolled in the Advanced Science and Engineering and International Baccalaureate programs. She is also one of Fairmont’s representatives to the National Honor Society.
Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ.
Mensa has three stated purposes: to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence, and to promote stimulating intellectual and social opportunities for its members. (Tita Roces)
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