Admission for gifted children

With the help of our Testing & Admissions Department, your daughter or son may quickly become a member by qualifying in one of two ways: taking the Mensa Admission Test or submitting evidence of prior testing.

Testing procedures for children age 14 and above
American Mensa offers a test battery to all prospective members age 14 and above. If English is not your first language, we also offer a culture-fair test battery. You can arrange to take our test with an American Mensa volunteer proctor in your area by filling out this form. For specific questions regarding our test battery, please contact Testing and Admissions.

Submitting evidence of prior testing
Mensa accepts more than 200 tests for admission, and many members under the age of 14 apply by submitting evidence of prior testing. Many parents have their children tested by a school or private psychologist, and most public and private schools give tests that we accept for admission, including these common tests:

• Otis Lennon
• Stanford Binet
• Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT)
• Test of Cognitive Skills (Terra Nova)
• Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities
^{(not the Woodcock Johnson Achievement Test)}

^{Scores on the tests listed above must be at or above the 98th percentile with an index of 132.}

• NNAT-Individual Form
• NNAT-Multilevel Form
• WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence™)

^{Scores on the tests listed above must be at or above the 98th percentile with an index of 130.}

Include your membership application when you submit evidence from any of the tests above. The test score must be in one of the following formats:

• Listed on a sealed school transcript.
• An original score report (include a SASE for safe return of the document).
• A notarized copy of your original document.

If you have questions regarding a test not listed above, please contact Testing and Admissions.

To submit evidence of testing given by either a private or school psychologist, include the membership application and make sure the scores are presented in the following format:

Testing information must appear on psychologist, school district, clinic or agency letterhead. It must also include:

• Candidate's name
• Date of test
• Name of test
• Full Scale IQ and/or percentile
• Psychologist's signature on the document
• Psychologist's license number on the document

All American Mensa testing and admissions procedures are done
under the supervision of Dr. G. Frank Lawlis, Supervisory Psychologist,
American Mensa Ltd.