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[quote=Anonymous]I feel like people are mixing up “gifted” and “savant.”

Someone who tests in the top 2%, for example (about 132+) is gifted. No two ways about it. But that person could very well do fine in a good public school or strong private school.

When you’re talking about someone who can graduate college at 14, you’re talking about someone who has an IQ that is probably above 160 (aka is generally considered unmeasurable, as the test tops out at 160).

My sister and I both had IQ tests when we entered a kindergarten magnet program. I tested at 147, and she tested at 153 (we only found out much later, when we were going through old stuff). We both went to strong private schools after finding public school too easy, but neither of us graduated college early. At my high school, there were absolutely kids there who were smarter than me, and yet they did well in a mainstream (if very selective) private school.

My point is that I think people assume that very high IQ kids can’t function in a regular school environment. That’s mostly not true. “Gifted” does not exclusively mean John Nash or Albert Einstein. Those types of people are savants. They are exceptionally rare.[/quote]

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