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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are assigning value to the SAT that isn’t true.  Lots of brainiacs at many schools.

I don’t think you can tell the difference between a kid scoring a 1540 and 1400 if you meet them on the street.

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OP here. Please no flame, but at our school, DD and 2 close friends who are similarly smart but not genius types scored 1530-1540 first try, minimal prep. While a true brainiac kid who has been brilliant since 1st grade scored 1600 first try, no one was surprised. Other friends told us their kids scored in the 1300s and need tutors to get up to 1450-ish. Those are the kids who always needed tutors and consistently performed a band under the 1540 kids (bc the school have different tracks for core subjects since middle school) and def under the 1600 kid. We have known all these kids since K and it's been very consistent. I disagree you can't tell the difference between a 1540 and 1400 kid, just as I can tell the difference between my 1540 kid and the 1600 kid. I have also seen kids who were happy in normal courses and got pushed by parents to get tutored into the advanced track math and chem classes and ended up having to drop back down to non-advanced track the following year.

I truly think kids do well in the track they naturally excel in but all have a chance to be very successful when they grow up if they learned in an environment where learn with peers with similar aptitudes and build confidence. [/quote]
Meh, a kid who scored mediocrely on the SAT in my high school class has won an apker prize and now is getting his PhD at MIT. SAT isn’t an outcomes measure.[/quote]

I was one of 5 NMFs from my high school.  A kid who wasn't among us got a PhD from Chapel Hill and is a Dean of Engineering at a large university.  I found out from junk mail I received on behalf of my h.s. junior.  I have a Master's from a Top 20 B-School and am an "independent contributor" at an F500.  Meaning not even middle management after 20+ years.  Having good people skills > high SAT.

Excellent elementary school prep helps the brightest children a lot.  Not to mention tutoring and other aids.  Math is very badly taught in elementary school.  If you have no natural interest in it, that depresses your scoring ability when compounded with mediocre teaching.[/quote]

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