TCU College Freshman Is Just 11 Years Old

[Beliavsky]

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@collegealum314

And as for the game people play of whether prodigies really end up “ahead”, a lot of jobs don’t carry with them outward recognition for being the smartest in their field.

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<p>The gifted are more likely than the non-gifted to rise to “get ahead”:</p>

<p>[Who</a> Rises to the Top? Early Indicators
by Harrison J. Kell
David Lubinski
Camilla P. Benbow
Vanderbilt University
Psychological Science May 2013 vol. 24 no. 5 648-659](<a href=“https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/Kell-Lubinski-Benbow-20131.pdf]Who”>https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/Kell-Lubinski-Benbow-20131.pdf)

Youth identified before age 13 (N = 320) as having profound mathematical or verbal reasoning abilities (top 1 in 10,000) were tracked for nearly three decades. […]</p>

<p>Their leadership positions in business, health care, law, the professoriate, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) suggest that many are outstanding creators of modern culture, constituting a precious human-capital resource.

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<p>The youths were participants in the Study of Exceptional Talent, which requires a score of 700+ before age 13 on the math or verbal SAT.</p>