	She went to Meramec Community College and studied philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis but quit two years later to help with a family investment business. Savant moved to New York City in the 1980s to pursue a career in writing. Prior to starting "Ask Marilyn", she wrote the "Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest" for "Omni", which included intelligence quotient (IQ) quizzes and expositions on intelligence and its testing.