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[quote=Anonymous]To reiterate what others have said, I was/am profoundly gifted.  But, I refused to do work once I understood the material.  That meant that I often got really high grades on tests, but crappy grades / 0's on HW.  I graduated HS with a C average.

That left merit aid off the table.

Oh, I turned it on in college, where there was much less graded homework, transferred to a good state school, and then earned my graduate degrees from a top university (PhD, physics).

The one message I have is if your DD is really profoundly gifted (IQ's of 150+; could be 140+, as the tests lose accuracy at the top):  you child may have problems relating to classmates; they may be thinking on a different plane.  Be prepared for that.

A second message -- re college:  Most people at that intelligence end up in STEM fields.  In STEM, which college does not matter that much; there is not much difference between the classwork at, say a large state school and MIT.  What matters is the terminal degree -- grad school.  Do well at any good school (e.g., in VA, VT, W & M, UVA) and you can get into any program in the country.

Do not well at a top school, and you will struggle for grad school.

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