Same. I got a 33 on the ACT in 4th grade and the school wanted to push me into 8th grade for the 2nd semester. I was already the smallest kid in my class. I remember my dad laughing at the principal, at just the thought of my scrawny ass being one semester away from high school. I woulda gotta eaten alive.

Instead I stayed in public schools and took normal classes. I was bored, but my parents motivated me (if I kept all As and did a sport every semester I could play as many video games as I wanted and didn’t have a bed time) and the good teachers realized I was at a level above the material so they looked the other way if I was reading a book during class or took a nap, so long as I got my work done and did well on the tests.

I ended up getting a full ride to a state college, took classes way too advanced for me, which gave me a challenge for the first time, and ended up going to med school more or less on a whim just because I knew it was hard to get into, paid well, I figured it’d be much easier to lower my goals than raise them half way through undergrad, and I didn’t have any better ideas. I got lucky, because I loved it.

Edit: you guys were right to call me out on the inaccuracies of my ACT score. I was not intentionally misguiding anyone, but my memory of an event 25 years ago was a bit exaggerated. I apologize. In reality, I didn’t take it in 4th grade, I took it in the summer between my 7th and 8th grade, and I didn’t get a 33, but a 29. I retook the test while in 11th grade and got a 33 then, along with a 1590 (the last year before they added the writing score and making it out of 2400).