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By Lessa Scherrer College Inside Track

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College Information for Gifted and Accelerated Students

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Big Dreams and Big Expectations

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Why Might a College Choose Not to Admit a Young Student?

• Lack of college-ready skills
• Lack of maturity or autonomy
• Legal/safety issues, especially for girls
• Appropriateness of curriculum
• High selectivity/not competitive

enough

Grade Skippers

• Usually 16-17 on campus
• Social and emotional maturity
• Ability to live on own/life skills
• Exhausted all or most classes

at high school

• Can be difficult to highlight all

their strengths

We strongly recommend taking the full four years to complete high school while making the most of [your] time academically and personally.

~Personal communication, Stanford Admissions

Early Admission

• After 11th grade
• Highly-selective colleges allow students who have

“exhausted the classes available to them” to enroll.

• Maybe one or two students per incoming class
• Don’t want to miss a superstar

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• Be sure you are competitive against 4 year graduates.
• Letters of recommendation must speak to emotional

and academic maturity.

• Interviewing is a must. Show them your poise.
• Handle your own business! If you can’t, you probably

are not mature enough to go away to college.

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Recommendations

Ea Early College

• Primarily residential experience
• Age 14-17 typical
• Traditional college, just with younger teens

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Early College vs Early College High School

• Usually 2 years (some 4), all

college work

• After 10th – 11th grade
• Residential
• Students do not need a high

school diploma (but they can take the GED)

• Associate or bachelor degree

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• 4 years, subject acceleration to

college work

• 9th-12th grade
• Students live at home (not available

in all areas)

• Earn a traditional high school

diploma and college credit*

• Some can earn an associate’s degree

Benefits of Early College

• Appropriate academic challenge for

students who are ready

• It’s a real college so teens get the

full experience.

• Get a head start on graduate school,

professional programs or career

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Drawbacks of Early College

• Drinking and drug use
• Little supervision
• FERPA
• Lack of academic challenge

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Success Skills for Full Time College Students

• Academic Skills
• Time Management
• Stress Management
• Study Skills
• Self-Advocacy
• Problem-Solving

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• Life Skills
• Avoiding Risky Behavior
• Healthy Choices
• Money Management
• Honesty, Integrity and

Perseverance

• Trial at home:
• laundry,
• prepares meals,
• handles money,
• daily hygiene (without

being reminded!)

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Recommendations

• Problem-Solving:
• meets deadlines,
• takes initiative,
• identifies problems and finds

ways to solve them,

• asks for help when needed,
• makes own decisions

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Not ready for college? IB or Prep Schools Gap Year Dual- enrollment

International Baccalaureate (IB)

• High level academics compared with most high school classes
• More in depth learning than AP classes
• Students who decide to pursue an IB diploma must complete a

specific set of courses, the Theory of Knowledge course (ToK), a 4,000 word Extended Essay (EE), and 150 hours of “creativity, action, and service” (CAS) hours.

(AP Seminar and AP Capstone were created to catch up to what IB requires, but their rigor depends on the teacher and school to a much greater extent.)

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Boarding or “Prep” Schools

• High level academics

compared with most hs

• Dorm experience good

practice for college

• More supervision than

early college programs

• Some are feeder schools for

Ivy League

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• Expensive—hard to save for

college

• Little economic or racial

diversity, elitist

• Student may not be ready to

leave family

• Big Fish in Small Pond vs

Pushed by My Peers

Benefits of Being a Big Fish

Opportunities to

• Research
• Publish
• Present
• Travel to conferences

Go to the top students

Malcolm Gladwell at Zeitgeist 2013

Gap Years: Not New and Not a Waste of Time

• 90 percent of students who took a

gap year returned to college within a year.

• Financial aid is available
• Gap year interest and enrollment

trends continue to grow.

• Visit www.GapYearAssociation.org

to find accredited programs

Dual Enrollment

• Student lives at home and attends

high school

• Academic and vocational courses
• Concurrent high school and college

credit

• Frequently free for public school

students

• Examples: Running Start (WA), PSEO

(MN) Youth Options (WI)

Academic Rigor

Extra- curriculars

Impact

Recognition

Making the Most of High School

q Original Research/ publication or presentation q National or International competitions q 1000s of service hours, preferably in 3rd world

Academic Rigor

Extra- curriculars

Impact

Recognition

Making the Most of High School

q Original Research/ publication or presentation q National or International competitions q 1000s of service hours, preferably in 3rd world

Academic Rigor

Extra- curriculars

Impact

Recognition

Making the Most of High School

ü Live your life with purpose ü Make the world a better place

Recommendations for Parents

• Take social and emotional maturity into account, not only

academic maturity.

• Look beyond brand names. The best fit school might be
• ne you’ve never heard of.
• Students stand out in the applicant pool when they’re

living their best life, not following a “guaranteed admission formula.’

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Thank You!

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Radically Accelerated/ Homeschooled

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• Can be much younger than
• ther early college students
• Usually live at home with

parents, not in dorms

Tanishq Abraham

• Attending community college

part time since age 7

• Graduated from high school at 10
• Graduated from American River

College at age 11 with 3 AA degrees.

• Accepted as a transfer at UC

Davis and UC Santa Cruz

University of Washington-Seattle

“Before I made the visit I thought that Early Entrance was comprised of overachieving, out-

• f-my-league geniuses doing incomprehensible

work and not having much fun with it. The visit to EEP changed my views completely; these were not wunderkinder, just bright kids having fun with challenging work. The more I observed the program the more fun I thought it would be to be in it, and how much I would gain from it later on.” ~Adam, quoted on UW Robinson Center website

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Early College Options 4 year Program 2 year program Transition Year

Early College Programs

University of Washington-Seattle NW Missouri State University Bard College at Simon’s Rock* Guilford College Mary Baldwin College* University of Denver Lamar University University of Southern California Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University University of North Texas Clarkson University Worcester Polytechnic Institute Western Kentucky University Boston University University of Iowa Cal State University-Los Angeles University of Nevada-Reno Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com

Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) at Mary Baldwin College

• After 8th grade, age 13-16
• Girls only, although campus

is coed. Separate PEG dorm

• Students take classes with

traditionally-aged students

MBC also has a coed early college program for 16-17 year olds

Admissions: PEG program

• Applicants are required to:
• complete the PEG online application
• submit a full transcript with excellent grades. We recognize homeschool transcripts under

parental authorization.

• provide three recommendations completed by two teachers and a school administrator

(gifted coordinator, guidance counselor, principal) or mentor for homeschool, umbrella school, or correspondence school students.

• respond to 4 essay prompts
• have achievement test scores in the 90th percentile
• submit SAT or ACT scores (90%ile is 1350 or 31)
• conduct a family and individual interview. On campus interviews are preferred and can be

arranged to coincide with a visit.**

• complete a geometry course prior to enrollment (does not need to be complete prior to

submitting your application).

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Admissions: Mary Baldwin College

First-time freshmen:

• 22 average ACT (or the SAT equivalent 970)

and

• Average GPA is 3.35 (on 4.00 scale)
• 1 recommendation (counselor)
• 1 optional essay

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Transition Year Programs

• After 10th-11th grade (15-16 on campus)
• Usually segregated residential
• “On campus dual-enrollment”

Students earn high school and college credit concurrently

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The Clarkson School at Clarkson University

• Professional, academic and college advising
• Portfolio enhancement through research
• pportunities with professors
• Accumulate Clarkson University credits, which

can transfer to other universities

• A tight-knit community consisting of students

with similar interests

• The option of continuing as a sophomore at

Clarkson University upon successful completion of The Clarkson School year

More Likely to be Accommodated

• Dyslexia
• Dyscalculia
• Autism Spectrum

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2E Accommodations

More Likely to be Attributed to Immaturity

• ADD/ADHD
• Dysgraphia
• Executive Function issues
• Anxiety/depression