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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of the obsession with getting into the GT comes, in some cases, from parental concerns that have nothing to do with DC actually being gifted.  Instead:

1. Gifted program is perceived as the fast track to Harvard. But Harvard will take your kid from high school not fourth grade. While I do think normal-but-hardworking kids can succeed in magnets, by high school the non-gifted kid is either going to be miserable with the stress of keeping up, or the truly gifted kids will be kicking his/her butt, and Harvard won't be interested.

2. The local school isn't great, it may even be bad. I think some parents I know even view gifted programs as a free equivalent to private school.[/quote]

Disagree with one but agree on some level with two.  [b]The HGC program serves so many kids to make the gifted label meaningless.[/b]  Parents mainly seek it out because it is a stronger peer group of academic minded kids that can serve as a buffer to issues at homeschool.   Percentages of even magnet kids that get into Harvard is low.[/quote]

Not really.  Each Center serves about 75 kids in each grade, and there are six Centers - so total about 450 kids out of 10,000 fourth-graders.

To my knowledge there are no statistics on percentages of magnet students admitted to Harvard.  What an odd reference - why would such stats even exist?

And what do you mean when you write, "serve as a buffer to issues at homeschool"?[/quote]

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