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People are right.  Prepping will not make a non-gifted kid get into a HGC. However, prepping will help a gifted kid get an edge over another gifted kid. Since the seats are limited, your gifted child is not competing against good students or hardworking students, they are competing against other gifted students.

Every child in the HGC belongs there. There are no students who do not belong there. Regardless of if they prepped or not.  [/quote]

This.  If MoCo did a better job meeting the needs of above average students, this wouldn't even be an issue.  But MCPS does not and has this crazy system so parents do what they need to do.

I also agree with the PP.  Innate ability will only get you so far in life.  In sports, at work.  Anywhere.  Better off learning that you need to prepare for things.  I'll take an average IQ hard-worker over a lazy genius any day on my team at work.  [/quote]

I'd take the genius in my field given the two choices, but I'd definitely take a smart-but-not-genius hard worker over a lazy genius any day.[/quote]

However, in most cases this is rarely an either or proposition.[/quote]

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