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[quote=Anonymous]On the point of kids determining they are not "mathy" or "technical" -- I find this even with my son based on the fact he's around a lot of really smart kids here in NOVA.  He's always scored 130-140 on things like Cogat and WISC quant sections, got a 720 first try on the math portion of SAT.  By any measure, this puts him in the top few percentile in basic quantitative thinking--and enough capacity to do the math/science in any undergrad STEM degree.  He's not some crazy math super-star or anything, but in the large view, he would be considered to have strong quantitative skills.
  
But he's young for his grade and opted to do Algebra H in 8th grade rather than 7th, despite qualifying for it based on the Iowa test. He's gotten A's and B's in all his math classes through AP Calc.  But since his only "B's" have been in advanced math and science courses and he hasn't done a post-calc hs course, and is a leader in history/literature etc.  He most definitely thinks of himself as ineligible for STEM majors.  This would be fine except he also really loved chemistry and has always loved building and designing things. I don't want him to do STEM if it's not his thing, but it bugs me that he's decided based on being around a lot of high achieving peers that it's not really a viable option before he even tries out some college courses.  I've tried walking him through this thinking, but it's hard. [/quote]

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