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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who knows a bunch of people who skipped 3+ grades.

I skipped 3 grades myself. I was tested PG, both WISC and SB (~170 IQ). That background might mean that I've ended up meeting more people who have been radically accelerated, or perhaps more people who were once accelerated end up talking about it in my presence. (Otherwise you'd never really be able to tell in an adult.)

At the modest-sized suburban high schools I attended (one hometown public, one public STEM magnet, both smaller than a typical DC-area public school), each had another kid with a 3-grade skip. Locally there was also one family with incredibly gifted children; they finished college while still in their teens (and went to public schools where radical acceleration was allowed).

At my university (an Ivy), I met a recent grad (an employee of campus IT) who had a 3-grade skip. I also met a teenaged math grad student. I remember the university paper having mentioned other young entrants, but I don't recall how many.

In my post-college DC-area startup with a relatively small number of employees, there were two other employees who had a 3-grade skip, who attended Maryland public schools and later UMCP.

As I've grown older, accelerated folks stop being obvious -- i.e., you don't notice coworkers who can't legally drink, for instance. [b]But in the (STEM) business world since, I've met a surprising number of people who, over a casual business dinner, have ended up mentioning their own radical acceleration when we're chatting about educating our kids. A few of them grew up in the APAC region, but the rest are US-raised.[/b]

My experience is that most radical acceleration is either three grades, or something totally off-the-charts, like going to college at age 11. There doesn't seem to be much in-between.

Kids who are accelerated by 3+ grades generally have individual IQ testing done as part of the justification for that acceleration. I don't think a grade skip that large is likely to be done for kids who have less than a 160 IQ. If you're at 145, you can probably do all right with sufficiently challenging curriculum in your grade or maybe one grade up (I have a sibling with a high 140s IQ, did great with a single grade of acceleration).[/quote]

PP, your experience is very much like mine. I had a 3-grade skip, then skipped another year a few years later. I have run into other PG people professionally, and they are on the surface no different from anyone else.
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