We’ve been discussing boarding schools. She is finishing up Calc I and Spanish 101 at our community college. We live in the midwest.
What an outstanding student. May I ask how you got her into community college? That is awesome.
Our community college is very flexible. It’s not uncommon to have younger kids taking night courses there. By the way “Go Shockers”. My cousin got her BS and MS in Mathematics there and is doing great in her career in statistical analysis. We are huge WSU fans and hope Greg sticks around.
That’s a bit premature. She has to be accepted first, and that is not a foregone conclusion.
Ok @skieurope, apply is what I meant.
You might want to check out The Early Entrance Program at CSULA http://web.calstatela.edu/academic/eep/
It is a program that qualified students between the ages of 11-15 can skip middle school and/or high school and start college early. They cannot stay on campus. Many families move to California if their child is accepted.
I know there are a couple more programs like this in the US. EEP CSULA is in California.
Boarding schools are also extremely talented/proficient in music, the arts, dance, drama, and athletics as well…are you interested in your daughter becoming a part of those types of communities?
Look at the Davidson Institute. They added a boarding option a few years ago. One of my kids attended their THINK program for a couple of summers and loved it.
@intparent: Are you referring to the Davidson school in Nevada?
boarding school
Never mind… I am confusing it with the Davidson Academy of Nevada in Reno.
Yes, Davidson Academy in Reno. It is a school for profoundly gifted students. It is one program under the umbrella of the Davidson Institute.
Another early entrance to college program is at the University of Washington (Seattle) through the Robinson center for young scholars - early entrance program for 7th and 8th graders and academy program for young scholars for 10th graders:
These scores are phenomenal for a 7th grader - Your daughter is truly gifted. With scores like that, my assumption is that her SSAT will be 99% which is what boarding schools will look at. It would be worth casting a wide net looking at a host of different schools to determine best fit for her. I think she will be a very competitive candidate many schools. My advice is to focus on an experience that will be fulfilling for her in many different academic and social aspects.
We must have done something wrong when filling out her SAT app because we’ve heard nothing from special programs for her. I read that with scores like this we’d have been offered summer programs like Duke and what not. I have no clue what we did wrong.
@KunjiBoy: That’s interesting, I’m not sure why you are not receiving anything–but I would not assume that you did something wrong. I took the SSAT back in December and had a high score–now all these schools keep on sending me emails and sending me mail…how long ago did your daughter take the SAT?
She took it in October.
The way Duke TIP worked when my kids were in 7th grade was that their middle school reported a qualifying standardized test score to Duke (for my kids that was Iowa testing). They had to score in a very high percentile. Duke then sent them an invitation to take the SAT to see if they qualified to join TIP. I don’t believe Duke routinely gets the SAT scores of 7th graders unless there’s been contact before taking the test.
I am pretty sure that she qualifies for CTY at JHU.
https://ctyjhu.org/eligibility/eligibility_TS.cfm
Make sure you sent the SAT scores to them.
Well isn’t that odd. We must have checked something wrong. There have been some great suggestions here. We just simply don’t know what to do with her.