IQ Score Guide / 153
Is 153 a Good IQ Score?
What an IQ of 153 means, where it ranks, and what it tells you about cognitive ability.
What an IQ of 153 means
This places you in the top 2% of the population — the threshold for Mensa membership. Exceptional abstract reasoning, rapid pattern recognition, and the capacity to identify connections others miss are hallmarks of this range.
Careers that commonly score in this range
Notable people reportedly in this range
All figures are estimates or reported by third-party sources — none are clinically verified.
Paul Allen
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist — reportedly scored 1600 on the SAT (pre-1995 scale). Multiple technology and business profiles estimate his IQ at approximately 150.
Dolph Lundgren
Actor and chemical engineer — holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. IQ reportedly assessed at 150–160 in published profiles.
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta co-founder and CEO — reportedly scored a near-perfect 1590 on his SAT (pre-1995 scale) before attending Harvard. Multiple published profiles estimate his IQ at approximately 150–152.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder — Princeton-educated with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Published assessments estimate his IQ at approximately 145–155 based on academic record and documented problem-solving at scale.
Recommended reading for this score range
The Intelligence Trap
David Robson
Why high IQ consistently fails to prevent poor decisions — and the evidence-based fixes.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The definitive account of human cognitive architecture from a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist.
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