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College Information for Gifted and Accelerated Students Yo You’re Ready for College Math, but but I Is Co s College R Ready f dy for Y r You? u? By Lessa Scherrer College Inside Track www.CollegeInsideTrack.com

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com College Inside Track 919 Fairfax St. Ste. 205 Visit CollegeInsideTrack.com to: Eau Claire, WI 54720 • Sign up for our newsletter • Access free resources 715-497-2717 Text Okay! • Get in-depth tips and advice on the application process Lscherrer@CollegeInsideTrack.com

www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Early College Options Big Dreams and Big Expectations

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 College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Early Admission • After 11 th 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

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Recommendations • 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.

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Ea Early College • Primarily residential experience • Age 14-17 typical • Traditional college, just with younger teens

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Early College vs Early College High School • 4 years, subject acceleration to • Usually 2 years (some 4), all college work college work • After 10 th – 11 th grade • 9 th -12 th grade • Residential • Students live at home (not available in all areas) • Students do not need a high school diploma (but they can take • Earn a traditional high school the GED) diploma and college credit* • Associate or bachelor degree • Some can earn an associate’s degree

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com 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

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Drawbacks of Early College • Drinking and drug use • Little supervision • FERPA • Lack of academic challenge

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Success Skills for Full Time College Students • Academic Skills • Life Skills • Time Management • Avoiding Risky Behavior • Stress Management • Healthy Choices • Study Skills • Money Management • Self-Advocacy • Honesty, Integrity and Perseverance • Problem-Solving

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Recommendations • Trial at home: • Problem-Solving: • meets deadlines, • laundry, • takes initiative, • prepares meals, • identifies problems and finds • handles money, ways to solve them, • daily hygiene (without • asks for help when needed, being reminded!) • makes own decisions

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Not ready for college? IB or Prep Dual- Gap Year Schools enrollment

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com 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.)

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Boarding or “Prep” Schools • High level academics • Expensive—hard to save for compared with most hs college • Dorm experience good • Little economic or racial practice for college diversity, elitist • More supervision than • Student may not be ready to early college programs leave family • Some are feeder schools for • Big Fish in Small Pond vs Ivy League 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)

q Original Research/ Making the publication or presentation Most of High q National or International competitions School Academic q 1000s of service hours, preferably in 3 rd world Rigor Impact Extra- Recognition curriculars

q Original Research/ Making the publication or presentation Most of High q National or International competitions School Academic q 1000s of service hours, preferably in 3 rd world Rigor Impact Extra- Recognition curriculars

ü Live your life with Making the purpose Most of High ü Make the world a better place School Academic Rigor Impact Extra- Recognition curriculars

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Recommendations for Parents • Take social and emotional maturity into account, not only academic maturity. • Look beyond brand names. The best fit school might be one 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.’

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Thank You! 919 Fairfax St. Ste. 205 Visit CollegeInsideTrack.com to: Eau Claire, WI 54720 • Sign up for our newsletter • Access free resources 715-497-2717 Text Okay! • Get in-depth tips and advice on the application process Lscherrer@CollegeInsideTrack.com

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Radically Accelerated/ Homeschooled Can be much younger than • other 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- of-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

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com Early College Options 4 year 2 year Transition Program program Year

Early College Options www.CollegeInsideTrack.com 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

Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) at Mary Baldwin College • After 8 th 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