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Reply to "Is my child gifted? In Arlington magazine this month"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep reading the magazine... I was more troubled by the college acceptance statistics that followed the gifted article. I realize they were self-reported, but I was very surprised to see how few Arlington kids are getting accepted to top private liberal arts colleges and universities. My kids are still in ES, but I assumed Arlington was pumping out kids to the Ivies. The acceptance rates looked really low. So all this GT focus doesn't seem to be making much difference where it counts the most.[/quote] The pool is too high. You are better to go to a High School with a less educated populace so you are a big fish in a small pond. The competition is too large here. There is a cap on the number of students from any one area or HS. Also, everyone is white so nobody is getting affirmative action acceptances. But GT has Zero to do with college acceptances. It's pretty irrelevant. [/quote]
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