The Pittsburgh Plan: Profiles of First Participants

Participant #1 (Female): 

• Began Pittsburgh Plan at age 4 
  
• Age 6: read chapter books such as Charlotte’s Web; exceeded standard Plan math RESULTS 
  
• Top student in AP Calculus in tenth grade
  
• National Merit Finalist
  
• SAT (old): 1580 (first try)
  
• Admitted into numerous “elite” colleges; attending large university on full scholarship.
  
• First short story published in science fiction anthology at age 16
  

• Began Plan at age 3˝
• Age 6: read chapter books such as Boxcar Children
• Age 6: very advanced math work, including solving problems such as ˝(4x-3)=3+2x/5, expressing 3/7 as a decimal, simple trigonometric work with angles in both degree and radian measure, solving word problems involving rates, etc.
• Top student, Honors Calculus (8th grade)
• Excelled in Calc. 3 (9th grade) and Intro. to Math Theory (10th grade) at the U. of Pittsburgh
• Top student, advanced Real Analysis (11^th grade) and Abstract Algebra (12^th grade), Carnegie Mellon University
• National Merit Finalist
• SAT (new): 2360 (first try)
• Admitted into numerous “elite” colleges; attending large university on full scholarship

• Began Plan at age 2
• Read chapter books before reaching age 4
• Age 6 very advanced math work, similar to Participant #2.
• Excelled in AP Calculus (6th grade)
• Top student, Calc. 3 (7^th grade), U. of Pittsburg
• Top student, Math Theory (8^th grade), Carnegie Mellon University. 
• 7^th Grade: achieved the top combined score in Pennsylvania on the SAT amongst thousands of gifted 7^th-graders

Participant #4 (Male):

• Began Plan at age 2˝
• Age 6, read Harry Potter books
• Age 6 very advanced math work, similar to Participant #2.
• 5^th grade: First Place Quantitative Score, Commonwealth of PA, PLUS test
• 5^th grade; Perfect Math Score (25), EXPLORE test
• Will take AP Calculus in 7th grade

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