Moderately Gifted to Gifted Young Adults: Post-High School Education

How much does previous background and “good fit” affect their options and choices?

Where any individual fits in his or her setting or environment depends, to a significant extent, on who else is there. That’s called the relativity of intelligence, of high giftedness. Having — or not having — access to true peers with whom they can share their ideas and easily understand each other can be a detriment to their progress.

In this post we start with Level One

People in the Level One range are also in the what I call the Conventionally Gifted range. I chose the term “conventionally gifted” to describe the first three Levels because most teachers and most students have had such gifted students in their classes. These are the people others think of as smart, maybe gifted. Within the Conventionally gifted range are Levels One, Two and Three.

Post-High School Education and “Good Fit”

This post introduces the idea that a “good fit” extends past the regular school years in our lives. With the background on what a good post-high school “fit” looks like, we can continue to explore what really happens for any cross-section of gifted people — not just the ones in this study — and some…