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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsmith123][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very difficult to suss out without a professional evaluating your specific kid.

I'll just give you my own experience:

Unlike PP's children, I was not reading Harry Potter-type books at 5/6 years old. I starting read by about 4.5, but it was simple books. That said, my parents got me tested for admission to a magnet kindergarten program; my IQ came out at 147.

I never had trouble in school, graduated from a top prep school with honors and from a top research university magna cum laude. Am I gifted? I suppose my IQ would suggest so, but I was certainly not the smartest kid in my high school (though it's an extremely selective high school). If my IQ is 147, [b]I would suspect I went to school with kids who have IQs in the 160s at least. 
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My 3 year old seems bright and inquisitive, but I'm really more concerned about her becoming a well-adjusted, compassionate and kind adult, than whether she is gifted or not. DH and I do not plan on getting her evaluated, unless it's mandated for a program we think she'd thrive in. [/quote]

That's really unlikely. Either you are underselling yourself (particularly common with women), or your IQ is very unbalanced, e.g. only moderately gifted in most areas but highly gifted in one area that does not come up often in daily life, like spacial cognition, for example. [/quote]

PP's description sounds very similar to me, and in fact there were multiple people at my high school with IQs in the 160 range.  I went to a public high school near a university and most of the professors' kids were pretty bright.[/quote]

Same.  Even so, I wouldn't say any of those kids I went to school with wre "truly gifted."  Just very, very smart (and some with very pushy parents, but not all.)  The only child I've ever met who I immediately said was "truly gifted" is actually the child of two of those HS classmates whose respective brains combined in an amazing way. This kid was drawing amazingly realistic and creative pictures when he was 5 years old - as in so good I actually wanted to ask for one to just keep for myself as art.  Art-art, not like "what a cute drawing."  It was truly astonishing.  [/quote]

I’m the PP who went to a very selective prep school. It was one of Andover/Exeter/Deerfield/Hotchkiss. Extremely difficult to get into.

I had a kid in my math class who contributed to the field of geometry with a meaningful original insight when he was in 10th grade. One of my other classmates curated her own anthropological exhibition when she was 16. She went on to earn a Rhodes Scholarship. Several got PhDs in fields like Physics and Biochemistry from Ivy League schools. The school had to offer open-ended seminars in math and all the sciences because there were routinely kids who would exhaust the entire curriculum (well past AP) before they graduated.

I’m a smart person who did well there and have succeeded in achieving my goals, but some of these kids were/are true geniuses. [/quote]

very smart very privileged kids. maybe one actually “profoundly gifted.” it’s very rare. [/quote]

They are all very intellectually privileged. Not all are socio-economically privileged. Many are on FA. [/quote]

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