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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid (11th grade) is smart. Like, super smart. Not genius level, but he has maintained his 4.0 with ease and sails through AP and DE classes. His IQ is somewhere around 140. He hasn't taken the SAT yet, but I'm sure he'll do super well.

Despite all this, he keeps telling me he has "no shot" at good colleges (not Ivies, but schools like UC Davis, Georgia Tech, etc). I really don't understand how college admissions have become so competitive that a child in the 99th percentile will have trouble being admitted to schools without insanely low acceptance rates.

Is he exaggerating, or is this true?[/quote]

[b]I don't think you understand, your kid is basically a dime a dozen in these parts.[/b]

They need to figure out what sets them apart from the tens of thousands of other super smart, accomplished kids, and what they are going to contribute to the community they wish to be a part of. Just scores and GPA isn't going to be enough. There are super smart, accomplished kids who can catch a football, or sing different opera or musical theater parts, or who programmed their own AI platform. [/quote]

I don't understand why people keep saying this when a vast majority of kids "in these parts" are very dim. [/quote]

The average SAT score in FCPS is about 1200 or about 150 points higher than the rest of the country.
Go to some schools like McLean and Langley and the average SAT is closer to 1300.

[b]A 140 IQ is probably about a 1400 SAT score.  [/b]
About a quarter of asians get that sort of score or better.  
The ratio is even higher in fairfax.

With that said, UC Davis and Ga Tech ar3e definitely possible.  Unless he is going CS, then it's a bit of a lottery ticket.[/quote]

nope, not even close. [/quote]

It's pretty close. 1400 is roughly 139-140

https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/satiq.aspx[/quote]

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