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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another NT grad here who took 4 and 5 level classes. Most of the kids in my classes were quite bright. The folks who got mediocre grades in them tended to be very bright kids who didn't apply themselves. The kids who worked very hard, but perhaps weren't innately intelligent, were rarely in these classes. I went to a private liberal arts undergrad with a full tuition scholarship; while not a top ten school, still quite good, and wow, classes were almost always easy after NT. I think I got two Bs in four years. I did attend a top-5 law school, and I'd say the level of intelligence and competitiveness was comparable to my NT experience.[/quote]

+1 to this.  Was a 4 & 5-level student at NT and then went to a very good private university (not HYPS, but the next tier down).  Had a much higher percentage of A's than I did at NT and graduated PBK - definitely easier than NT.  Went to a top-2 law school, which was comparable to my NT years in terms of rigor.  Also, the valedictorian of my class at NT did not have straight A's in HS but did as a STEM major at HYPS.

Also, as others have pointed out, it's apples-to-oranges to compare an open-enrollment suburban HS to a big-city magnet HS.  Of course the kids at the bottom of an open-enrollment school are going to be weaker than the kids at a selective-enrollment school.  Duh.

TL;DR: OP is a snob and a fine exemplar of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.[/quote]

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