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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.[/quote]

Mary Baldwin is a small liberal arts school in Virginia that is NOT selective. They admit 90% of applicants. They have a program for gifted girls aged 13 to 15 to bypass high school and attend college. The average SAT score for all admitted students in Critical reading is from 440 to 550 (25th to 75th percentile rank) and math is 400 to 510. I would assume the 13 to 15 year olds might score around those ranges as 8th graders and would score much higher as 11th graders if they stayed in a regular high school. I picture all the girls at TJ could score that high on the SAT as 8th graders. You would be around a smarter cohort of people at TJ than the undergrad class at MB, so I don't understand why you would send your daughter there. So don't assume that if your daughter got into MB she would:a) get into TJ and b) be one of the most academically advanced if she does get in.[/quote]

Those scores in 8th grade would easily qualify you for the less selective CTY track-- and way over qualify you for the intensive track.  Are parents seriously sending 13 year olds to COLLEGE based on such low SATs?  Does anyone take the degree seriously and let kids head directly to grad school? BecAuse SATs in the 400s make t sound like "MB" is a very impressed with itself high school boarding school. TJ kids would easily be hitting high 500s and above (often well above) in 8th.

http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/docs/academic_princeton_eligibility.pdf
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/docs/intensive_eligibility.pdf
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