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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are assigning value to the SAT that isn’t true.  Lots of brainiacs at many schools.

I don’t think you can tell the difference between a kid scoring a 1540 and 1400 if you meet them on the street.

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OP here. Please no flame, but at our school, DD and 2 close friends who are similarly smart but not genius types scored 1530-1540 first try, minimal prep. While a true brainiac kid who has been brilliant since 1st grade scored 1600 first try, no one was surprised. Other friends told us their kids scored in the 1300s and need tutors to get up to 1450-ish. Those are the kids who always needed tutors and consistently performed a band under the 1540 kids (bc the school have different tracks for core subjects since middle school) and def under the 1600 kid. We have known all these kids since K and it's been very consistent. I disagree you can't tell the difference between a 1540 and 1400 kid, just as I can tell the difference between my 1540 kid and the 1600 kid. I have also seen kids who were happy in normal courses and got pushed by parents to get tutored into the advanced track math and chem classes and ended up having to drop back down to non-advanced track the following year.

I truly think kids do well in the track they naturally excel in but all have a chance to be very successful when they grow up if they learned in an environment where learn with peers with similar aptitudes and build confidence. [/quote]

It sounds like your DD has gone to school with many types of smart kids. Some are "naturally" more gifted than her, some are less, and some are similar.

Here's my question: How was that experience for her? Was she ok being a part of this mix of kids?

[b]The fact is that all T20 schools (and arguably T50 schools) have a similar mix of kids.[/b] Some crazy gifted kids (natural 1600s) take a full ride at a T50 while some high-effort kids leverage their superscore 1550 (among other assets) into a T10.

The idea that your DD should be in a college enviornment with kids exactly like her on this very narrow dimension strikes me as incredibly strange.

Not only is this only a small indicator of . . . well, anything . . . but also, it's strange to aspire to send your DC to a school with such a narrow type of peer. [/quote]

Err is the highlighted line true for MIT or Caltech?[/quote]

Good point. Without spelling it out, I had already eliminated them from this analysis because OP seemed clear that MIT and Caltech were not good fits because those schools are full of "brainiacs"?  :roll: [/quote]

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