Originally Posted by George C
I think it's fair to say that there a good number of us parents (me included) who were surprised that our kid scored in the PG range on an intelligence test. I think there are a few factors at work. One may be that we really don't know what "typical" scoring kids look like (we mostly only have our own kids to reference). Another may be that we might be led to believe (through popular culture) that it should always be incredibly obvious that our child is high achieving from a very early age (in reality, it may or may not be).
Agreed. This observation may be helpful to the OP.

Originally Posted by GeorgeC
It saddens me that you are disappointed that Davidson now lets the "riffraff" (such as myself) in to programs like the Young Scholars.
Dusty did not resort to name-calling such as "riffraff" in his/her post. Nor did s/he call anyone out personally. Therefore your putting words in his/her mouth is inappropriate and inflammatory. This is sometimes called a "straw man".