Parents of children with super high IQ scores - where are your children in school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone point me to a website/resource that correlates WPPSI scores and IQ?

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx
This correlates WPPSI score with percentile. I think the WPPSI score itself is supposed to be a rough IQ score.

I am pretty certain the WPPSI scores do go above 140.

[Anonymous]

Davidson institute defines it at 150.

[Anonymous]

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For extremely high IQ.there are lot's of resources in this area for children with this type of extraordinary intelligence such as Hopkins and CYT.Though these children do benefit from the social aspect of a regular school , they need to also have a place where everything seems at their speed, like they have "come home" as this level of intelligence if not carefully nurtured can be very isolating. Best of luck to you and your child.
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Just for the record, there is as much variation among children with "extraordinary intelligence" as there is among children with any other notable attribute. My DS, who tests well above the 140's, has never only needed school for the social aspect, has phenomenal social skills, and has a good group of friends at his private school who clearly cover a wide range in cognitive ability (say from high average to stratospheric). He liked CTY fine but quit as soon as he was old enough for an outdoors-oriented sleepy away camp.

I would never attack a post (or poster) stating that a specific highly gifted child needed something specific, and I do know highly gifted kids who click best with other highly gifted kids. But in return, please don't generalize about my kid!

[Anonymous]

WPPSI is notoriously unreliable wrt differentiating kids at the high end of the scale. It's a reasonable (but not ideal) way to identify which kids may be academically gifted, but essentially useless for determining degrees of giftedness.

[Anonymous]

Even looking at the chart makes me skeptical. If your child scores 99.9%, which so many here claim that would start the child at an IQ of 147. I find that highly unlikely.

[SAM2]

Anonymous wrote:Even looking at the chart makes me skeptical. If your child scores 99.9%, which so many here claim that would start the child at an IQ of 147. I find that highly unlikely.

Which part makes you skeptical? That the chart is accurate, that the test is accurate, that posters' children are really scoring at 99.9 percentile, or some combination of those? I think there's a little selection bias at work ...

(1) Parents who post about their child's 99.9 percentile score are understandably proud because the child scored that high, so they post about it. The huge number of parents whose children did not score 99.9 are a silent majority. Also, parents of a 99.9 percentile child likely post about it early and often, on several different threads where the topic may arise. So those of us looking at those posts might be double-counting.
(2) High SES correlates with high scores. DC is relatively affluent, people who have internet access are more affluent, and the DCUM private school board is likely even more affluent, so there probably are more 99.9 percentile scores per capita posted here than normal.
(3) We're seeing multiple years of data aggregated together. If someone's child scored 99.9 eight years ago, she likely will still comment on a thread about 99.9 scores. When you add all those comments together, it may give an inaccurate impression of larger numbers of high-scoring children. Also, know that some children might have been tested multiple times over several years, but parents will still call them 99.9 percentile scores even if only one year of testing reached that level.
(3) There may be some creative accounting. I would not be surprised to see a 145 FSIQ score rounded up from 99.86 percentile to 99.9 percentile. Similarly, I could envision some parents remembering that little Mary scored 99.9 percentile on at least one of the subtests, and so referring to her as a 99.9 percentile child. And we all know that parents
can just plain mis-remember things after several year. For example, my own mother now claims (and truly seems to believe) that she breastfed exclusively for the first 6 months, and that I was sleeping through the night at 2 weeks, when I know both of those are fabrications.

There may be other things that lead to inaccuracy too, but these are examples.

[Anonymous]

Enough with the ney-sayers - There are hardly any answers here to the original question...mostly doubters and defenders.

So back to the beginning - where did you send your children if you consider your child to be in this category?

[SAM2]

Anonymous wrote:Enough with the ney-sayers - There are hardly any answers here to the original question...mostly doubters and defenders.

So back to the beginning - where did you send your children if you consider your child to be in this category?

I just created a quick poll listing all the schools I saw on the thread. Maybe people will answer it so there is a clean tally.
http://micropoll.com/t/KEbjKZBouQ

[Anonymous]

Loudoun County public schools.
Yes, we are very happy with the quality of education DC is receiving. GT does not begin until 4th grade but he receives differentiation for language arts and math.
We are doing CTY Online as well as the CTY enrichment programming. DC is not keen on the CTY summer camp and wants to attend the same fun-filled, happy "average" camp as last summer.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Can anyone point me to a website/resource that correlates WPPSI scores and IQ?


It will be on your child's WPPSI test result page.
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[Anonymous]

DS with IQ at >99.9% was unhappy and unchallenged in regular MoCo but extremely happy at the Center Program, now in fifth grade.

I realize it's not private, which is what the OP asked about, but I looked at a lot of private schools and we decided this was the best option. Absolutely the right decision in our case.

The downside: you have to KEEP applying to magnets for middle and high schools. That process gets more stressful as the child realizes the stakes, wants to stay with his/her friends, etc.

The upside: it's 100% free!

[Anonymous]

we've got one HG (150) at a MoCo GT/LD center and it's working very well. Our other HG (140) is at a small private and doing well. They do a lot of differentiation.

[Anonymous]

Quite possibly the worst thread on this site. Anyone who brags about the IQ equivalent from their child's WPPSI score should be thrown out of the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quite possibly the worst thread on this site. Anyone who brags about the IQ equivalent from their child's WPPSI score should be thrown out of the country.

you don't get it - not all, but a substantial fraction of high iq kids in the 150 range are at risk kids if there school environment is not paid attention too - just as the equiv on the other end of the scale have special needs - it's not a question of bragging but taking care so that these kids turn out well while growing up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite possibly the worst thread on this site. Anyone who brags about the IQ equivalent from their child's WPPSI score should be thrown out of the country.

you don't get it - not all, but a substantial fraction of high iq kids in the 150 range are at risk kids if there school environment is not paid attention too - just as the equiv on the other end of the scale have special needs - it's not a question of bragging but taking care so that these kids turn out well while growing up

I get that these kids need different kind of attention but please, please don't compare them to kids with disabilities. I have one of each and trust me, it isn't the same.