Well they might have made a mistake...you could always try testing again.
A program like DYS, in my understanding, would take achievement scores into consideration, such as using the achievement tests and portfolio items (2 out of 3 required categories) and not the IQ so they obviously are supportive of high achievement regardless of IQ?
Having a EG/PG IQ doesn't guarantee anything, but then again it doesn't doom you. A person might have to work on the organization, friendliness or other skills that come more naturally to others with a more "even" package, and some EG/PG people also have other exceptionalities (twice-exception) that present challenges.
There is also something to be said for the concept of "optimal IQ" or "optimal intelligence" where you're enough above average to naturally do better than someone who's average, but not so far above average that you have a hard time relating to the majority of people, dealing with asynchronous development for years as a young child and things like that.
Even though you had to push, if your daughter was accepted into the gifted program she sort of had the best of all worlds...no learning differences, not to much trouble related to being the odd one out, and the support of that extra enrichment or accleration that a gifted program could offer her.
