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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's important for you to realize there is nothing unique or remarkable about what you're describing and when she applies to college she will be competing against similarly gifted students for slots. [/quote]

You are wrong.  A kid who figures out how to read by age 3 is exceptional.  Assuming (a) kid basically taught herself and (b) parent is accurate about kid being able to read (vs recite text from memory and recognize a few words).  This is consistent with a subsequent identification as PG.  [/quote]

[b]You must have little kids and not teens.[/b]

Giftedness and advanced intellectual skills are like an upside down pyramid. Very few in the early years and gradually increasing numbers of peers the farther they get into school. Hard work, drive, organization and quit wit can easily outpace giftedness by high school.

The kid who is reading at three can easily end up struggling by their teen years, for as simple of reasons as they can't remember  to turn in homework like PPs kid, relied on a photographic memory until that party trick no longer worked in higher level AP classes like my kid, or feel they are above most mundane work like the offspring of the PP who said it is okay to not do work because so much of it is below gifted kids.

The kid may have an IQ in the highly or profoundly gifted range, but if they struggle.putting that skill to good use, then they will be passed up by many other bright and hardworking kids.

Don't count on scholarships OP.

As an example of one, my profoundly gifted kid who has always gotten straight As is now dancing with ending up with a C average for tenth grade, including subjects he loves.  He hit a math level where he actually has to do homework regularly to do well and can no longer skate in and ace the test (he is on the advanced math track). He is struggling to learn that the best way to a good grade in upper level English class is to give the teacher what she wants to hear and see on your writing assignments instead of writing what you want to write, and by the way edits and revisions do matter, even if you have always been able to get As with your first drafts.  And he is learning that AP classes are really, really supposed to challenge you if taught correctly.

Focus on your kid being a good student, vs being a "gifted" student. In the end, gifted kids are just kids. And gifted or not, a LOT can happen to the kid you thought you were raising between the years of 12-18.[/quote]

Nope.  DC is in colleage and I've also been the kid in this scenario.   And you’re wrong about IQ, though arguably right about achievement in UMC environments. And I didn’t say anything about how being PG meant a kid would never struggle or always outperform non-PG kids.[/quote]

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