Wow! This is great!
I was in the "gifted" program, as were most of my high school friends. One is now a world class researcher, and I would not be surprised to see him win a Nobel some day, the other is a successful physician, the other is a rich guy livin and lovin life. The rest of them are doing pretty darn good, I'd say I'm the underachiever of the group, and I'm doin pretty well.
Funny, most of my friends also turned out to be pretty conservative. I guess maybe we really weren't all that smart at all. How we snuck into the program, I'll never know, I guess it was our wealthy parents who bought off the teachers, yeah, thats it.
Ooh, and just to name-drop, one of the losers in the "gifted" program in my highschool, was this really smart guy, one of the smartest I ever knew. Yeah, what a loser. All he did was go on and found one of those internet companies. What was the name of it again? Something about a large, South American river...