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[quote=Anonymous]OP your son sounds much like mine. 
Now that he is a teen, the sensitivity is quite difficult as he navigates teen social dynamics.

After much hand-wringing in the 4th/5th grade, we kept him at his (non big 3) private school. 
They started differentiating in 7th. He is now in high school
 
School is not all that challenging for him, and we decided we are ok with that.  He still does a fair amount of work and he is very advanced in math. There are 7 kids (in his grade of 98) in the advanced math.  There are three math tracks. 
We knew that a pressure cooker wouldn’t be great for him. And we decided that there are benefits to him getting near perfect grades with a moderate amount of effort. It’s not zero effort - it’s a moderate amount. Enough that he has free time each evening even with sports. And we like that. 
It’s not the right decision for everyone, but he’s a sensitive perfectionist. I was worried for his mental health if we put him in a very aggressively competitive place. 
We expect that by graduating at the very top of his class (definitely top 5, maybe even valedictorian) he still has a good shot at a top university. Perhaps we would have increased his chances if we went to a more competitive school. But I wasn’t willing to sacrifice his mental health for that small increase in odds. 
His IQ is 148, just for your frame of reference. [/quote]

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