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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the above. There were quite a few "profoundly gifted" kids in my graduating class that didn't have the grades for a top school OR who got to a good school and then didn't finish college because they didn't have a strong work ethic, didn't do their homework, etc.[/quote]

Why do you think this is? Because they weren't used to working hard for good grades? Or just lack of a work ethic?[/quote]

You really don’t know what kind of kid you have until they demonstrate an enthusiasm for learning and a good work ethic in high school.
I hate these early labels- they can do more harm than good. People (teachers with advanced degrees) started telling us that DD was really smart by 7th grade at a hard/academically oriented  private school. She then pretty much grew out of her school so she took standardized tests to apply to other private high schools and she scored very high on the tests with little prep. She goes to a top private and signed up for advanced classes and does very well but you could tell until her senior year that more often than not she was relying on her intelligence and not working all that hard in some of her classes.
This is her senior year pand she is now studying for all of her classes regularly so I am breathing a sigh of relief. She wants to go to a top college and frankly I was worried that she would get there, not study enough and freak out because she wasn’t doing well. I now think that she’s prepared so I’m good with wherever she goes.[/quote]

She also excelled at a job amongst college and graduate students - so again, I feel like she’s ready to function as an adult which is the point, right?[/quote]

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