Fourteen seventh-grade students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools qualified for Grand Recognition in the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) this year.
Culbreth Middle School students who qualified are Eleanor Costley and Aidan Marshall.
Phillips Middle School students who qualified are Alec Arshavsky, Ian Breakfield, Sarah Fordham, Vincent Lai, Danielle Liu, Grant Molnar, Koya Osada and Anshul Subramanya.
Smith students who qualified are Qing Ke, Anna Li, Kayley Peters and Shyam Vasudevan.
To qualify for Grand Recognition, students must exceed a score of 670 in math or 650 in critical reading or writing on the SAT or exceed a total score of 1850 on the SAT. Students also qualify by earning an ACT score of more than 26 in science, more than 28 in English or math, more than 30 in reading or more than 26 overall.
Of 119 Chapel Hill-Carrboro seventh-graders who took the SAT or ACT, 89 qualified for state recognition in the Duke TIP program. To qualify at the state level, students must earn either a 500 in writing, a 510 in critical reading or a 520 in math on the SAT.
The students will be recognized at a ceremony on May 18 at Duke University.