SWNSA 13-year-old girl has been invited to join the Mensa society after getting the maximum score on the IQ test—higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Sofia Kot Arcuri has been accepted into the club after achieving 162, the highest possible score for a girl of her age.
Proud mom Cecylia Kot Arcuri said she always knew Sofia was smart, but didn’t expect her to ace the test without any preparatory work.
“She just walks around throwing random facts at you,” Mrs. Arcuri said, adding that she has been top of her class from the moment she started school. “When you think of someone of high intelligence, you’d think they’d be quite geeky, but really, she’s a normal girl.”
“She’s got loads of friends, is bubbly, and loved by everyone.”
The Mensa High-IQ Society has been around for over 100 years, and focuses on welcoming those extremely gifted minds among us into a space of collaboration and camaraderie. The American chapter of Mensa boasts 50,000 members of the over 150,000, located in 90+ countries worldwide.
Isaac Asimov, Commander Chris Hadfield, Steve Martin, and John McAfee were all members of Mensa, along with the inventor of the mobile phone and author of The Clan of the Cave Bear novels.
Due to Sofia’s intense workload from school, she “didn’t have time to prepare” for the Mensa test in January, and hadn’t practiced any Mensa tests prior to the big day.
Her mother said she was over the moon after receiving her results on March 14th.
Sofia is top of her class in computer science and wants to pursue a career in coding when she grows up.
“She came home one day and said, ‘there was a bug the teacher didn’t even know how to solve, and I did it,” said the understandably proud Cecylia.
SWNS“She’s also a ballet dancer and performs in shows with her dance school. She loves musical theatre and is always playing the piano.”
Cecylia’s father and Sophia’s grandfather, Antoni Kot, was a head teacher and mathematician who was very well known in his homeland of Poland, tutoring students until age 86 when he died.“His brain was sharp even in his last minutes, and we believe Sofia inherited her love of math and coding from him,” she said. Girl Joins Mensa at 13 After Scoring Higher Than Albert Einstein–Even with No Exam Prep
