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[quote=Anonymous]Both my kids are in the 145-150+ range on WISC/SB-5 and attended/attend a "middle of the road" AAP center--not known for a lot of parent prep/pressure--kids don't universally know about 'TJ" and aren't thinking about it unless they are really, really into STEM.  In some ways I think this served my kids better than a more highly regarded AAP because the teachers were willing to adapt to the handful of higher level kids through additional math acceleration, substitution of assignments etc.  There seems less worry about if you do something for one kid it will open the floodgates of parent demands (I have friends at other more intense AAP centers where they are more cautious). On the other hand, there's less established culture around academic competitions like MathCounts if that's important to you.  I don't think my kids were particularly academically challenged in ES even with extra acceleration, but they weren't overly bored.  But we complemented that with CTY and other things and it worked out fine enough.[/quote]

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