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[quote=Anonymous]I think that 90th percentile means your kid has a good chance at academic success and will likely find school fun, interesting, and sufficiently challenging, at least through elementary. At a WOTP elementary, my guess is that 1/4 to to half of the students, including your older son, might hit the 90th percentile on those kinds of tests. The threshold for admission to gifted programs in many parts of the country is scoring at the 95th percentile (or sometimes even the 98th). In short, keep doing what you're doing - it sounds like your kid is bright but not the kind of bright that means you have to start bending over backwards to accommodate his genius.

(FWIW, I was a kid who scored in the 99th percentile on every standardized test I ever took - I am not a crazy genius, but school and academics came really easily to me. I went to a pretty crummy elementary school through 2nd grade, a good magnet school 3rd-5th, and then my parents move to an excellent district in the 'burbs.)[/quote]

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