No clue where to start, help please?

intparent
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:55:38 +0000

XtremePower, a lot of kids take the SAT in middle school as part of talent search programs around the country (the OP mentioned Duke TIPS, that is one of them). Others include CTY (run by Johns Hopkins), Midwest Academic Talent Search (Northwestern), etc. Students who score well can get access to academic services for gifted students and can apply to selective summer programs run by the talent search programs or programs like the Davidson THINK program. Some students take the test because they are identified by their schools as candidates, some are registered by their parents.

The scores themselves are generally wiped out of the College Board system when the students reach 9th grade unless the student/parents request otherwise. So those students generally go on and take the PSAT/SAT in high school just like everyone else does.