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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]Yes: if we're talking about high school classes, not elementary or middle school! No one gives a rat's ass what classes a student took before high school. Admissions counselors will laugh at you if you try to mention that your child was in AAP during elem/middle school. The only classes that count are honors and AP/IB classes, in high school. And these classes, thankfully, are open to all. How on earth did this thread go from discussing parents who prep their 1st and 2nd graders for the NNAT or CogAt, to discussion of SAT or ACT prep? One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.[quote]

In college, there are avenues to get in even from a GED. Community colleges in Virginia will get you into the many state schools with a 3.0. So, you can drop out of HS, get a GED, go to NOVA for two years, and transfer to Virginia Tech.

From Virginia Tech, you can go to MIT for grad school. No one will care that you have a GED.[/quote]

Peyton here again.  Let's connect the dots for the Virginians.  It seems sports may be all they understand -- lacrosse and soccer.

Everyone knows travel team soccer for elementary school kids has no bearing on whether your child will be accepted at a Division 1 soccer program of play Pro soccer.  But, can any rationale person deny kids who are challenged early in their athletic career (travel team soccer or NCAP/RMSC club swimming) with more rigorous workouts and teammates may just have an edge on getting successfully recruited by Division 1 coaches/teams, the Olympics and pro sports?  Is this concept a difficult one to bridge (at 7 years old) or grasp for DCUMMIES?

Now, let's transition to music or academic and intellectual pursuits.  Does it not stand to reason kids who are challenged early in environments like AAP, HGC, magnet programs, IB, AP, on so forth will just as likely be successfully recruited to MIT, UVA and Harvard--like athletes with longstanding training in challenging environments?

I suppose there's a reason why some are cut out for MIT/Harvard/Amherst.  Some individuals have the capacity to think and others ... well are make dumb statements in the above quotes.

What pro team cares about the traveling team you played on in middle school and what medical school cares that you attended TJ?  But, for the our local dummies, without the challenge of TJ or that traveling team in middle school you may likely have ended up at Podunk university with a basket weaving degree or playing weekend lacrosse with pot bellied bros.

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