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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's still relevant this year. Do people have any post-pandemic (read: full college experience) anecdotes?[/quote]

The premise of the thread is BS. "Gifted" as OP describes and as listed for CTY, Duke Tip, most public-school gifted programs is 95th percentile on IQ type tests, or nationally normed achievement test, often one area is good enough, other designations require overall 95th%ile.

95th%ile on an SAT, though it is not IQ of course, for a nationally normed sample not user sample, is 1370. While being in the top 5% is great, there are a very large portion of T30-75 schools which have 1370 somewhere within the middle 50% of enrolled students (from pre-TO data, which colleges will return to it once tests are mandatory). In other words, being "gifted" as deemed by the 95%ile cutoff means you are around an average student at dozens of the slightly "lower" ranked colleges that are outside of the T30. OPs "gifted" kid will likely have many similar level peers at these slightly lesser ranked schools. Such a 95th%ile kid would be bottom 10% at a T20. 
OP from 2021 did not understand that being "gifted" as typically defined is not at all rare. Even being "highly gifted"(99th%ile) is an average student at ivy/T10. Maybe OP's kid is that level of gifted, though IME parents who use the term gifted will know the term highly gifted and throw it out there along with %ile.
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