<p>Did you do CAA or CTY?
Those are COMPLETELY different things. </p>
<p>Also, I enrolled in philosophy and put in the higher group as a fluke (I was younger than a lot of the students in the lower group) and it was extremely difficult but extremely helpful and stimulating.
CTY demonstrates your ability to learn at an accelerated level.</p>
<p>Because CTY knows that people get older, classes are separated into two groups. I am taking Logic and Reasoning (which helps a LOT with the SATs, more so then taking three years of Latin) and I am presumably going to placed with the rising juniors.</p>