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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the helpful replies. Without knowing one child who has gone to an HGC (this is my oldest), I wanted to get a sense if there are children with similar profiles to my child who attend the HGCs. There are many very smart children in my child's class/grade each year, many seem "gifted" to me in one way or another. But obviously most will not attend an HGC. So I am weighing whether it is worth even considering it as a possibility for school next year, since in our case it requires a move to a different school, leaving friends and a lovely community. I guess the term "highly gifted" implies something more to me than just getting a 99% on the WISC or similar test, but maybe what I am envisioning at the HGCs is not the case. [/quote]

I think they name it center for the HIGHLY Gifted so they can limit it to a small percentage of kids -- since MCPS defines about 30% of its students as "gifted," there would be lawsuits otherwise.

It's also a real term though, and refers to the top 3%, more or less, of kids measured by IQ.  So if your child got a 99% percentile on the WISC, they fall into that group.  And even though we live in Lake Woebegone :), even in MoCo the distribution applies.  Of course, we are talking about 99% percentile OVERALL, not on one particular subtest.

Also the test for the Centers isn't the WISC so your child could have a very high IQ and not do well on the particular test they use, or at least not as well as the WISC score could predict.  And despite what they tell you, that test score is the most important thing for admission -- although other things are taken into account.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, OP, if your child was in the 99th percentile on the WISC as an overall score, then yes, your child would be fine at an HGC. [/quote]

ISsn't the HGC test similar to or the same as an I! test?  [/quote]

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