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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not the PP, but I would venture to say s/he meant that a 140 IQ is not highly gifted and thus on the bubble for admission.  [/quote]

140 is highly gifted, but there are a lot of highly gifted students in MoCo. [b]With a 140 IQ,[/b] the child is far from a shoe in for magnet.[/quote]

You gotta be kidding me. My three kids went thru the magnets and i dont' think their IQ is any higher than room temperature. Certainly no where close to 140!  :shock: [/quote]

PP here. I am NOT kidding you. My IQ was tested at 151. I made the magnet middle school. I did not make the magnet high school (attended the school anyway). I was far from the smartest person in the magnet program.[/quote]

Then either MCPS magnet admission process is faulted or IQ test itself is faulted. I really cannot believe (not being a humblebrag here) my three kids have IQ that high. They got into middle and HS magnets and did fairly well (not #1 in class but probably top 10-20% of magnet class). I do agree that there are a LOT of smart kids in magnets as you would expect but IQ of 140 still seems high to me. But I have no proof. [/quote]

Statistically speaking an IQ of 151 should appear in about 4 children in a student body of 12,000.  It's roughly 3.5 standard deviations above the mean and is in the 99.97 percentile.  I went through MCPS in the 80's with a WAIS score of 148 and was bored out of my mind.  I don't even remember magnet programs being an option.  [/quote]

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