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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard to find a common metric to compare, because the private school kids aren't taking the same assessment tests as the FCPS elementary kids.  On the WPPSI/ERB test, FWIW which might not be much, my kids are in the high 140s and low 150s, and my sense is most of the other kids are in that same general area.[/quote]

This is the type of info the parents in the AAP/HGC threads post. It is just not probably that "most" of the kids in a big 3 class have IQs of close to 150. I agree with the posters who are guessing in the 120-135 range, and also with the poster who noted that the range of scores is bound to be more narrow than in a public (although not more so than the AAP and MoCo's gifted programs, which was OP's post).  Also, several posters questioned how so many of us know our kids' IQs - [b]if they entered private before 5th grade, they likely took the wppsi/wisc tests.[/b] [/quote]

The earlier kids takes these tests, the less reliable they tend to be in measuring innate intellect & the more likely they are to be greatly skewed by the child's environment . I know [i]several[/i] kids who scored above the 99th percentile on the wppsi when applying for K, for instance. Most of these kids -- mine included-- did not turn out to be geniuses, just bright kids from high SES homes.[/quote]

This. If you are using WPPSI scores as the basis for knowing your kids' IQs, I can guarantee that those aren't accurate. IQ tests don't begin to become accurate as measure of intelligence until about age 9, if I recall from Nurture Shock.

I am a "Big 3" parent with kids in high school. Generally speaking, the Big 3 kids who start in K do not have greater native intelligence than kids in other schools. They might be slightly higher than the population as a whole, but that is based more on SES and the higher education levels of parents around here. By 9th grade, according to my kids, the new students are incredibly smart and/or gifted in some particular art. My DD reported that the new kids were "amazing." The selection process becomes more accurate as you have better, more reliable data, so the admitted students actually might raise the IQ averages at that point.
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