Gifted Program!?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I am currently enrolled in a very prestigious gifted program in my area. In order to get in, one must have a standard age score of 144, equivalent to 99.7 %ile. although I attend a public highschool, all of my core classes are either advanced or accelerated or both. From this I get a more challenging curriculum full of plenty of IB and AP coursework as well as an IB diploma a year early (junior year). However, my dilemma is that my GPA is significantly lower than if I took non-gifted courses and my fear is that this will lead me to look bad on college/early college entrance applications relative to the non-gifted students that have 4.0s. </p>

<p>Are you in a similar dilemma?
Will this be the case?</p>

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<p>Lol you are either ■■■■■■■■ or highly misinformed that you are “gifted”, and that gifted students don’t have 4.0s.
Let us not forget the people who take Calculus 4 freshman year along with organic chemistry/engineering physics/etc while president of student council/doing research/1000 hours of volunteering every year/winning major competitions/nationally ranked athlete/valedictorian/etc.</p>

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<p>one:
not ■■■■■■■■.
two:
yes, some students do have 4.0s, but the vast majority do not.</p>

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<p>Lol vast majority are not “gifted” or in “prestigious” programs.</p>

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<p>I was referring to the students in the program.</p>

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<p>I was in a similar high school. Except the IQ requirement was 130 (which I don’t technically is gifted).</p>

<p>But a lot of kids had 4.0s or pretty close to it. Then again, kids lives revolved around school at my HS.</p>

<p>But this will all come out with your school’s counselor report. If the valedictorian has a 3.5, then clearly your school is just ridiculous at grading, but then you’ll be compared against that 3.5, not 4.0</p>

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<p>for clarification purposes, by ‘significantly’ I mean ~3.6</p>

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<p>But high IQ correlates to high SAT scores (at least more so to SATs than GPA). I’m sure you have a great SAT score, too. That always helps.</p>

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<p>A 140+ IQ is not gifted, and I’m saying that as someone with that IQ.</p>

<p>Gifted is 175+, taking Calculus 3721987438074 as a freshman along with AP Physics PZYXGHA, all while playing the violin at a world-class level.</p>

<p>The term is very relative, but there are plenty of people like you and me out there.</p>

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<p>No. Gifted is definitely around the 140 range.</p>

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<p>^
Again, the term is very relative. A 140+ IQ isn’t THAT big of a deal, considering approximately 3 out of 1,000 people have it.</p>

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<p>I think it’s a big deal if 0.3% of people fall into that category.</p>

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<p>^140 IQ is really not that big a deal. It’s really common on the internet - look at any online forum. :p</p>

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<p>does your school weigh IB/AP classes way higher? that could help.</p>

<p>It is common on the internet… a lot of things are. Like Adopted Korean Jews (like me). But I never met another in my life… so xD</p>

<p>I think 140+ IQ is good… I mean the average is 100? My older brother (not adopted), younger brother (not adopted), are 135+. My older brother is in Mensa (99.5%tile?) and younger brother is more like 99%… (yes, they have had professional and “real” testing for this).</p>

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<p>how is 140 not that good considering genius is around 150? are you saying almost genius’s aren’t gifted in the least?</p>

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<ol>
<li>mensa requires 98%ile</li>
<li>all the iq stuff is getting this thread off topic.</li>
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<p>Yes, makes my 200 IQ seem worthless.</p>

<p>EDIT: To reply to the topic, I’ll just say to the OP not to worry about. Your counselor is likely to say that you are in a gifted program and colleges will take that into account along with the the rest of your application.</p>