Originally Posted by ultramarina
To be honest, I am kind of amazed by the range of abilities in DD's magnet school--and these are all kids who test 99th%+. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but if I didn't know that those were the requirements I would think we were looking at a class of 90th%+.

I think that there are different modes of intelligence.

So, you have different types of abilities, some of which are more obvious than others at the 99-point-whatever level.