<p>So 78% of all mothers lie when telling their teenage kids that they're special? </p>
<p>Statistically speaking, I am now more of a failure than I thought I was a few minutes ago. This day sucks.</p>
<p>even if you're 1 in a million there's still 6,000+ other people like you</p>
<p>anyway, you are not special</p>
<p>Gifted classes are worthless... I was getting 50th percentile on the SAT9 scores with borderline autistic social behavior, and minimal English comprehension skills... and they put me in GATE 2nd grade.</p>
<p>What the fuuuuuh is GATE, lol.</p>
<p>^ Gifted And Talented Education.</p>
<p>Lol, I suck.</p>
<p>^ same here</p>
<p>When I was in third grade, I got tested for GATE and didn't get in... ):
But I'm doing great now, so yeah, these percentages mean nothinggggggggggg,
so screw GATE! :D</p>
<p>I was tested to get into my school's gifted program in 1st or 2nd grade but I didn't get in lol.</p>
<p>Didn't hurt me one bit.</p>
<p>I had GATE..lol it was in New York though. and then there was revolving door or something like that for borderline smart kids</p>
<p>^ </p>
<p>No one on this thread said they felt more intelligent due to their taking AP or Honors classes... in fact, that topic was never even brought up... </p>
<p>Don't you have something better to do in your more "social adapt" life than trolling on random threads no one will give a **** about?</p>
<p>^ Yeah I don't recall anyone claiming to be intellectually superior due to honors/APs.</p>
<p>This thread is about the gifted program. And if anything, people at the start of this thread stated that honors/AP courses have nothing to do with raw intelligence or reasoning.</p>
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Sorry to burst all of your bubbles, but just because you're in honor/AP classes does not make you more intelligent then anyone else. It just means that you have less of a social life and that you like to do more homework.
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Depends. It is true that honor classes are often "regular but at a faster pace with a lot more (useless) work," but a lot of my better AP teachers heavily de-emphasized homework. My AP Euro, AP U.S. Gov and AP. Macro teacher (the guy got around) actually had no homework to speak of and based the grade entirely on difficult exams based on the AP Exam itself. My AP Psych and AP U.S. History teachers both did something similar while assigning maybe one homework a quarter. Hell, even my chemistry teacher Dr. Trafton allowed exams to count for something like 75% of the grade.</p>
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I am in all normal classes and have a 3.0, and I KNOW that I am more intelligent, logical, socially adept, and have better reasoning that 98% of the people on these forums.
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Oh, really? Maybe socially adept, but I would like to see if you really are more intelligent, logical, and have better reasoning than 98% of the people in this forum. Actually, I think a good metric would be your SAT Math score... you can't claim a social life and unwillingness to do homework are keeping you down there. It's just your mind and your logical powers measured against a very difficult exam (which is I why think the SAT should be the foremost metric in determining admissions to universities, but I digress).</p>
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If you honestly think you're smarter then everyone else because you can memorize random, useless, obscure facts in AP BIO then you're a hypocritical ******bag.
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Why hypocritical? Who is pretending to be something they know they are not? You said "honestly think" so even if they aren't smart, they aren't knowingly pretending to be something they are not. And I agree memorizing facts for AP Bio doesn't make one smart. But why useless? Those would be facts integral to biological science...</p>
<p>You know what? I think you are just butthurt you can't get into advanced classes because your social life doesn't leave you enough time to do the homework.</p>
<p>Ha, sure they are.</p>
<p>jaimeastorga2000 = win.</p>
<p>LOL pwned.</p>
<p>I absolutely despise the dependene on GPA especally or "gifted" programs. IQ tests are ridiculous, but so are GPA's. </p>
<p>You're saying because I'm stressed with familiy life or something along those lines and don't put shool as my number one priority I'm not intelligent enough? Or maybe if I'm smart enough I should be able to balance it out... It doesn't work like that. When crap happens you put your heart to fixing the solution. School shouldn't need to matter in many situations. </p>
<p>Someone also pointed out to me one day you can be super smart, care about your education, but just not be good at school. The set up isn't something that works for certain students.</p>