Golly Jeni -
Your discription of your school's gifted program sounds heavenly to me. Sure, there are better, but at least if they are already used to starting kids off with Early Enterance, they are used to having young for grade kids running around. I susupect that if 2-5% of the classroom is early enteranced, you wouldn't need to have many kids gradeskipped. Perhaps that's why it's rare?
I would reccomend that you start provisionally thinking of your DD as a Level III - no lines up all the way down the line! I have a terrible memory, but my best guess for my own son is Level III, and he is in the YSP. I would definitly be very picky about who you choose for testing, as there is like 100 Level II kids for every Level III kid. ((I'm making this up - anyone can help here?)) So a local person could say, Oh my - I see Gifted Kids all day long, and still be clueless about your child. If you are with in 4 hours of Pittsburgh, I would explore the CMU resource, and see if they have testing. If she really is Level II - rejoyce! You'll be able to met her needs much more readily, and she's on her way to a wonderful life.
Find a tester who has lots of experience in the 99.9 range. LOL - you can always ask them what they thought of the recent Time Magazine article as an ice breaker!
Best Wishes,
Trinity
