The Midwest Academic Talent Search, run by Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

's Center for Talent Development in Chicago, Illinois gives above-level testing to gifted children grades 3-9 in the Midwest region to measure their ability and giftedness. 3rd to 6th graders can receive the EXPLORE test, while 6th to 9th graders can receive the ACT

ACT (examination)

The ACT is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. It was first administered in November 1959 by Everett Franklin Lindquist as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test...

 and/or the SAT

SAT

The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...

. Students with qualifying scores are invited to CTD programs and receive planning materials from Northwestern in 10th grade.

See also: Talent Identification Program

Talent Identification Program

The Duke Talent Identification Program is a gifted education program based at Duke University. Its purpose is to identify gifted children and provide them and their parents the resources for them to reach their full educational potential....

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