Our local community college admits 8th graders under a GT category if they have high enough SAT/ACT scores. This would be for actual college courses rather than courses designed for young GT kids. It's not incredibly selective but at least higher criteria than CTY/NUMATS/TIP. I think the specific summer course would be a better fit for DD and frankly a lot cheaper plus college credit towards likely dual enrollment in high school. One of my concern is that the course she is interested in is not an introductory 100 level course like college composition but rather an upper (200) level course requiring high writing ability and permission from the instructor if she hasn't taken 100 level courses. She has a 99th percentile English score on the ACT and writes well (for a middle schooler) but I am a bit concern with the potential concerns/pressure of "acing" the course to protect her college transcript. How have other parents dealt with this issue? Do you think it is reasonable to expect her to do well against 2nd year college students?
