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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you OP for posting this as my family is in a similar situation.

Older DD got admitted to a top school in our state.  Admission is by lottery so it was luck rather than her academics that got her in.  The school preaches that everyone can succeed at the school IF they choose to work hard. There are many kids who came from the gifted program as well as many "average' kids. DD is working hard. The school is very small and they have the same teachers for two of the years they are there.  (Ms. Jones teaches 9th and 11th grade math, for example.)  Being that DD is very shy, I *think* the small school is better and the teachers seem very approachable when she needed help.  She has fallen into a nice group of girls. There are many hours of homework, very few extracurricular activities, and just doesn't offer the typical American High School experience. I'm not sure if it's worth it.  I, too worry about burnout.

Her regular high school is several thousand - typical high school ranked about 1000 nationally.  She would do fine there but I worry that she would fade into the background, because of her shyness, even bullied.  SHe, of course wants to go there because she likes the IDEA of all the social activity but reality would be very different.  SHe has always built her friendship with quiet, calm, nerdy, girls.

Ugh....[/quote]

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