Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Differences between public and private schools

There may be more easy classes at Harvard than MIT, but the difficult classes, for example Math 55, are certainly there for those who want them.

Most MIT students who cross-register at Harvard probably do it for their humanities requirement. I found even the upper-division course that I took there pretty easy, but I'm sure there are harder courses.

Just from my experience, with the GT / HG children it is not about the school, it is the person, meaning if the child is gifted, regardless of what school they attend, they perform at the gifted level. I found that when there were career paths that required screening to get into that field, the group was diverse and came from all types of backgrounds; the screening was based primarily on cognitive ability and the group that made it through proved to me ( in different career paths ), that it did not matter where the candidates were coming from, what got them there was their brain and, if you asked them individually, that brain was intact from birth; it had nothing to do with the school. Hope it helps.

I could not disagree more!

Some may say both observations are true... the gifted may always excel at something in their niche interests, while they may not achieve academically without being met at their level with appropriate support and challenge.