Thanks Lorel, that's just it! I do appreciate the DYS, whether DS "makes it" or not. But they are inherently limited in what they are able to know about a child for many reasons, partly because the tests we have available just aren't very good at diffentiating in that top .5%. And also because they have to limit to certain kinds of talent and intelligence, some of which are never formally evaluated at all.
So I just don't want people who don't get accepted to think that that is the final word on their kid's abilities. I did that and I see now I was a bit nuts for doing that.
