Grad school admission for a 14-year old

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<p>Interesting article and forum.</p>

<p>Don’t know if the school still exist.
[Genius</a> School by Nina Leen 1948 | Genius School: Portraits of Gifted Kids in 1940s New York | LIFE.com](<a href=“http://life.time.com/culture/life-inside-a-genius-school-1948/#1]Genius”>http://life.time.com/culture/life-inside-a-genius-school-1948/#1)</p>

<p>Actually good comments.
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<p>The Life Photos from 1948 are from a school run by Hunter College. Currently, Hunter not only runs an elementary school program for gifted kids, but also a well-renowned gifted middle/high school(Hunter College High School). </p>

<p>Both require an exam for entrance and the former requires one to live in Manhattan. I know for certain the latter certainly does and one can only take the exam in around 6th grade after qualifying by scoring above a certain high percentile on the 4th or 5th grade NYC wide exams. </p>

<p>Although I technically qualified on the last part, the Catholic Elementary School Principal and staff never sent anyone to Hunter College High School so they were ignorant of the application procedures. By the time they found out about it, it was too late to register for the exam.</p>

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<p>I see lots of kids getting into top colleges from hunter college each year.</p>

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<p>^ ^</p>

<p>Wouldn’t surprise me considering the folks I knew who went there and considering I attended one of their public academic rivals. :)</p>

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<p>There are several posters on this board who are Hunter alums and parents. DonnaL, for example, has written about his/her experiences in the elementary school. Back then, the middle school/ high school was all female and boys had to leave after 6th grade. Stuyvesant was then all male and the Hunter girls were cheerleaders for the Stuy teams. In the 1960s, Bronx Science became the “IT” school precisely because it was co-ed. For a while, it was much tougher to get into BxScience than Stuy. Stuy went co-ed in 1969. Hunter held out as all female until 1977.</p>

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<p>Remember giftedness is not “one size fits all”. The average gifted kid may be 1 in 100, but there are those who are 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10,000 etc.- all vastly different from each other in abilities and needs. Most gifted students will do fine within their school’s grade level and gifted program. Some, like the OP’s child, have exceptional needs not met like the vast majority of gifted students.</p>

<p>OP- just be sure you look after yourselves and any other children you have, you deserve a happy life as much as your child does. Your life should not be merely as a parent- you need a significant existence outside of your child. What will you do in a few short years when your child needs to separate from you and be his own person? Will you have a life of your own?</p>