Yesterday, I signed Christian up for the Duke TIP program. TIP stands for Talent Identification Program. It is a program run by Duke University to identify and “assist young people with excellent mathematical and verbal aptitude.” The 7th Grade Talent Search is a program that invites precocious 7th graders to complete either the SAT Reasoning Test (the same people who created the CLEP testing program) or the ACT Assessment college entrance examination. Then Duke TIP provides the participants with comparative information concerning their academic ability and resources for unique educational opportunities. Really, I think it is a way to identify talented kids to enter Duke, but other universities also recruit kids who have performed well and received awards from this program.
A student has to receive a score in the 95th percentile in Math/Science, English/Verbal, or the composite score of a nationally normed standardized test. Christian is in the 7th grade, he has qualifying test scores, and the ACT Assessment test satisfies the annual homeschool test requirement for the state of North Carolina, so I signed him up to take the ACT on February 7. I decided it would be good to give Kelly the same test, so I got onto the ACT website and found that it was possible to sign Kelly up for the same test at the same time Christian takes it. We are excited about this opportunity for both of the kids. The ACT and the SAT are accepted as college entrance exams by virtually all the universities that Kelly and Christian might attend so it will be great practice for them. It is often necessary to provide scores from one of these tests when applying for scholarships.
Check out Christian’s very interesting post on the election.
August 6, 2004 – Working on the patio (Photos)
August 9, 2004 – The weekend with Lauro and Conchita