Post-High School Education Outcomes for Level Four Gifted (Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted)

Level Four people are in the exceptionally to profoundly gifted range of advanced learners.

How much does previous background and “good fit” affect their options and choices by the time they finish high school and go on for post-secondary education and enter their careers? A lot.

As I’ve written and said in my places before, 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 social, emotional, and academic, and career progress. It can lead to other long-term issues, as well, so the goal is to help readers see what some of these less-than-ideal outcomes are for the different Levels of Gifted.

We continue with Level Four: The Outliers

In this post we look at the different needs of people at Level Four compared to those who are more conventionally gifted, the Levels One, Two, and Three participants from earlier posts.[1]

Many of the subjects from Level Four were originally tested on the old Stanford-Binet (LM) and…