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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the mom with the kid that applied to Prep and Groton. Hope this clarifies a few things for you. ... My son is not PG; he is what’s known as Exceptionally Gifted.  His IQ is measured, most recently, at 171; the occurrence of such is about 1:750,000.[/quote]

I don't doubt for a minute that your son is quite intelligent, and I hope he ends up at the very best school for him.  However, I'd caution you about placing too much weight on his IQ and especially on that 1:750k statistic.  There are currently about 430,000 school-age students in the greater DC metro area, including both the NoVA counties and MoCo, spread across 12 grade years.  So if you accept as true the 1:750k statistic, that would mean your son is the single most intelligent child the entire DC metro region has encountered in over 20 years.  Maybe that's true.  I don't know your son, so I cannot tell.  But I have met a fair number of highly intelligent children, and my sense is that those IQ statistics might be a little bit skewed.  So I'd recommend caution in using them as primary factors when choosing schools.

Of course, I'm sure you yourself are very intelligent, and I'm sure you're taking a wise approach to your son's education, so you probably already are appropriately humble in your attitude.[/quote]

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