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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid (11th grade) is smart. Like, super smart. Not genius level, but he has maintained his 4.0 with ease and sails through AP and DE classes. His IQ is somewhere around 140. He hasn't taken the SAT yet, but I'm sure he'll do super well.

Despite all this, he keeps telling me he has "no shot" at good colleges (not Ivies, but schools like UC Davis, Georgia Tech, etc). I really don't understand how college admissions have become so competitive that a child in the 99th percentile will have trouble being admitted to schools without insanely low acceptance rates.

Is he exaggerating, or is this true?[/quote]

BTW, IQ scores are irrelevant in college admissions unless they play out in high school rank or test scores. Mine is four standard deviations above normal but I got into the T4 law schools simply because of top placement in college class (summa, no 1) due to hard work and LSAT scores. My children are both 145+ and life members in Mensa. No one cares about that in college admissions. Fortunately, European universities are still invested in merit (not IQ claims -it has to be demonstrated) not DEI games and skin color so that's are focus innapplications and it has worked out well. I can provide for info about Oxbridge applications if interested. Many parents of gifted students who don't want to pay $93k a year for social wokeism are looking at Canadian Universities, German and  Dutch[/quote]

Not-so-humble brag post about one’s genius and then gets “are” and “our” wrong, along with several other grammatical mistakes. Classic DCUM.[/quote]

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