Does anyone here have an average child?

[Anonymous]

Where do the average kids go to college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do the average kids go to college?

My guess is anywhere they want to. Average kids take AP classes in HS and get straight A's just like the GT kids. No college that I have heard of yet requests to see an elementary school transcript.

I suppose you could argue that schools like MIT are geared toward GT type kids, but being a GT kid doesn't even mean that they will do well in such a school.

I don't believe that, with the exception of very specific occupations, attending an Ivy League school really matters as much as it did.

I can also tell you that I was NOT a GT kid, I did well in school, took a couple of AP classes, and got into every school I applied to. Penn State, Univ. North Carolina, Va Tech, JMU and the college I actually attended, The University of Tennessee. I got a great job and have a decent career.

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah....one of my best friends was a GT kid. Super smart and all AP and GT classes. He went to MIT, flunked out and now he happily works as a mechanic in Manassas.

[Anonymous]

In my world, average kids are not getting straight A's. They may get a few A's and B's with a C here and there. I call that average. My guess is these kids don't get to go to any college they want. I'm thinking UMBC or Towsons or some equivalent in Va or the midwest.