(08-02-2020, 05:02 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 04:50 PM)p_rushing Wrote: Generally gifted program is 130, unless they have changed it. I think some poor kids can get in with a lower score. As it is not all IQ, there are some interviews/observations, you can be allowed in on a judgment call but you have to be very close to 130.

The higher the IQ, the worse off you will be after a certain point. Over 160 and you are going to start having problems in the real world. IQ doesn't mean you will be successful as you have to be motivated to succeed at anything. That is one of the challenges for gifted kids in school. People with high IQs work in all different lines of work. Look at Mensa, even though I would never join, there are all different types of people.

I might be misremembering. This was Jacksonville in the late '80s and early '90s. They might have told me 130 and I might be remembering it as 120... Or maybe they really told me I was somewhere north of 120, and they decided to make an exception for me because I clearly behaved better in the smaller gifted classroom. Even in my young age I said to myself, eh, that's just a number someone made up...