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[quote=Anonymous]I hate when people say just relax as well.  So don't stress :)

My son, a current TJ semi-finalist, was constantly overlooked for the gifted program despite super high CogAt scores (99.9).  He was a bit of a pain in class - had the tendencies of the profoundly gifted - emotional over-excitability, low frustration threshold.  Finally in the 4th grade the science teacher went to bat for him and the Gifted Resource (we are in Arlington Public Schools) said no.  I had to take him to get privately tested.  He also has ADHD so we wanted to have a complete picture before starting medication.  Even with a GAI of &gt; 155 (so profoundly gifted for sure) I still had to appeal to the county.  It wasn't until the 5th grade that they formally identified him as gifted and put him in the gifted classes.  And you know what, he was the only kid from his school that ended up in Algebra 1 as a 6th grader.  His MS contacted us to ask if we wanted that because he had the highest score on the placement test.

My point is that your child can and will still do very well even if not in AAP in the early years of ES.

Good luck![/quote]

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