For the last fifteen years, recognized Eisenhower Middle School students have participated in the John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program. These seventh and eighth graders have been able to participate in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is customarily taken by students as juniors and/or seniors at the high school level. This year sixty-two Eisenhower Middle School students were eligible to participate in this program.
The Johns Hopkins University Talent Search is designed to identify, assess, and recognize students with exceptional mathematical and/or verbal reasoning abilities. Students scoring at or above the 97th percentile on a nationally normed standardized test may apply to participate in the Talent Search.
The Talent Search can help students, parents, and schools better understand a student's reasoning abilities. This testing will reveal more about their academic abilities and will allow them to compare their results with those of other highly able students. They will also learn about educational options and opportunities for students with their abilities and they will receive recognition for their outstanding achievements.
Top-scoring participants in the Talent Search program receive invitations to Awards Ceremonies that are held in each state. Wenjing Qi, an eighth grader at Eisenhower Middle School, received an invitation to the New Jersey Awards Ceremony. She received a mathematics score of 680, a score that is better than 91% of the high school seniors who are attending college and in the Verbal portion of the test, she received a score of 580, a score that ranked in the top 63% of high school seniors that will be attending college.