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1200 SAT I think is more like 110 IQ, not 120. I think 1300 or 1350 is more like 90th percentile.
Perhaps, I just googled "IQ score SAT equivalent". I'd guess SAT % is not exactly correlated with IQ because a lot of the dumbest kids will not have taken it. Particularly in the South and Midwest where they make the ACT a mandatory test for juniors.
Still, even 1350 doesn't seem like a top level company talent to me. I had a score 200 point higher almost 2 decades ago and didn't get into Stanford or MIT, despite a solid GPA and being a 2 sport athlete and having won multiple academic competitions quite casually. And when I graduated from a T1 state school with an engineering degree I wasn't picking between dozens of offers from FAANG (or the then equivalent) companies, I was deciding between a mediocre private sector offer or law school, again despite not being average at the state school, but being a high performer.
But perhaps OpenAI is not an elite company so I shouldn't think much on it. Or perhaps it is and they have a bunch of 120 IQ people in the place, and maybe that is why AI cant stop regurgitating middling journalist takes and fake history thats part of the official middle school curriculum.
A lot of the Asians probably start there before studying for the exam for years.
Are you white? From a conservative state, even?
The subtext of your comment comes off as a sort of naïve faith that we live in a meritocracy. But, in reality, the correlation between wealth and intelligence is around 0.40.
Maybe a lot of 120 IQ people are good enough for so-called elite companies? What do they do, anyway? Vibe code? Webscrape? No one really has a „genius job,” like they want you to think.
We don't live in a Sperg's paradise where the nerd gets the job, we live in normieland where luxury jobs are handed out through political means. You should be the right race, right university background, have the right advisor, have the right recommendations, know the right people, belong to the right Party, be from the right hometown. Plenty of 140 IQ men from Alabama end up as prosecutors in Bumpkinsville after getting rejected from HYPSM due to whiteness and conservatism, going to their state university instead of the most fashionable alternative they were admitted to, and failing to relocate to New York City for reasons involving their background, family, race, party, and so on. Meanwhile plenty of 125 IQ Asians from SF end up working in „frontier lab” after „Stanford” or at least „UC Berkely EECS” and recommendation from „prestigious internship” at a company that is 60%+ their race.
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