<p>Does being in a highly structured Gifted and Talented Program matter? My daughter is a GT kid and in her school, when she registers for, lets say math, she has to take AP Cal AB/GT as there is another AP Cal AB class. These math GT kids have been together since 6th grade since they are fast tracked two years. Does the GT mean anything to Adcoms? The high school she goes to only segregates GT kids in English and Math after 10th grade. All other classes are blended, ie, AP WHistory, etc. I would appreciate any feedback.</p>
<p>Just a side note, out of a class of 685, there are only 26 GT Math kids and 41 GT English kids, so it is not like half the school is in the GT program.</p>
<p>I'm in a somewhat similar program, except ours is for math/science and made up of 50 something kids out of I think 2500 in the district. The class structure you described is similar as well (for instance the regular high school curriculum offers ap bio and ap calc, but the ap bio and ap calc we take are with each other and at a different building). </p>
<p>Colleges do take note of programs like this. If gt kids have a separate college counselor, he or she will notify colleges of the program in the school profile that get sent out with applications. If you have a regular counselor, just make sure you or your daughter asks them to include some info about the gt program with her applications.</p>
<p>counselor probably will describe it. in my school "GT" means anyone who wants to take honors/AP classes even if you fail them.</p>
<p>Our high school didn't have honors sections, but had G/T sections. AP classes were not labled as G/T. I think that it does indicate that the curriculum in those classes is more rigorous.</p>
<p>When you consider that G/T kids comprise the top 5% of the kids in the U.S., and then you consider just how few spots there are for the incoming students at the top 20 colleges/universities in the U.S., then you can see that those spots are offered to the many gifted kids in the U.S. who also work hard, AND to those kids who maybe just missed being in the top 5% but are incredibly hard-working.</p>
<p>Lots of gifted kids do not get into top colleges for many reasons, a GPA around 3.5 and a fairly rigorous schedule, including taking ALL gifted classes in those high schools that have them, being one of them. </p>
<p>I know--hard to believe--but true.</p>
<p>Colleges look harder at quality of the courses than at raw grade-point averages, if the colleges are particularly worth getting into. </p>