Thank you all for your responses.
Scores - verbal, math and reading - were 30, 32, and 57. New Yorker, I will have her tested further. Seems like something is not adding up.
I honestly don't get it. She struggles a bit with math, but get's all A's anyway, and with no extra help. Straight A's last year too, every subject. The school climbed from top 1/3 in the state to top five, so they have really been pushing the kids hard. The amount of homework is unreal. Her MCAS ( state test ) was very high.
There are three math classes at her school - high, regular, and slow. She placed in the regular level, like the vast majority. However, due to her good grades, she is slated for Algebra II for 9th grade, so I hardly consider it a problem. All her teachers love her. She will be in French II Honors next year as well.
I know first hand of kids who don't compare record wise - not the self discipline, no foreign language, mediocre grades - but went to private day school and are now in Top BS. What is the message here?
I think what we are going to do is wait another year. In the meantime she is going to need a math tutor and I'm giving her a reading list. (She read the current smash Twilight series in record time - like a lot of girls her age I'm sure ) - however, I don't consider those exactly literature. Problem is she has been so inundated with homework I haven't thought it fair to give her supplemental reading. She has always enjoyed reading and been in the highest reading levels at school.
Tomorrow I will present to her Great Expectations. No jesting
Nevertheless, bewildered.