HOW TO APPLY

     The application forms that you need to complete are in this packet.

      Steps you need to follow:

• Complete the student application form.
• Ask your guidance counselor or designee to complete the Student Records form.
• Ask one math and one science teacher to complete recommendations for you using the Faculty Recommendation forms and return to your guidance counselor.
•  Return the application form to your guidance counselor or designee.  Your application packet will be forwarded to the school division’s Selection Committee.
•  Attend your division’s day of testing.

Meet all deadlines on time.

 Application Process
 

Note:  Please read these instructions in full before completing this application.

Acceptance for enrollment in the Piedmont Governor’s School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology is based on the following criteria and procedures.

• The student is enrolled in a public high school at the time of application.

• The student will have satisfactorily completed all math prerequisites by the end of the sophomore year of high school.

• Prerequisites for juniors:  Algebra I., Algebra II, Geometry, and Advanced  Algebra/Trigonometry

• Prerequisites for seniors:  Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Advanced Algebra/Trigonometry, PreCalculus, and College Biology (to meet DCC requirements for Ecology courses)

• The Selection Committee at the local school division level will identify and rank the applicants to be invited to attend the Governor’s School based on the criteria set by the Governing Board.

• Beginning the second year of operation, students who are eligible to participate in the full two-year curriculum will be given preference in ranking.

• Admission to the Piedmont Governor’s School is by application and all applicants are made aware of the curriculum offered as described in the Governor’s School policies, literature, and correspondence.  Students are not permitted to opt out of certain courses, since they are holding a slot that could be filled by another student who wishes to take the entire program.

• An exit policy is in place for possible withdrawal of students from the program at the end of the junior year.

• Criteria reviewed by the Selection Committee for each applicant are:
  • achievement scores from the most recently administered standardized achievement test
  • ability score from the standardized Otis-Lennon School Ability Test;
  • unweighted GPA for all high school core subjects receiving a high school credit (grade 8 – first semester of grade 10);
  • timed writing sample;
  • one English, one math, one science faculty recommendation; and
  • score from the standardized Matrix Analogy Test (M.A.T.).

Students invited to attend the Governor’s School and alternates for each school division’s slots are chosen by the school division’s Selection Committee based on the above criteria.  No review of the Selection Committee’s assessment of students is done by the Director or the faculty of the Piedmont Governor’s School.

FOR

Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Student Application

Name of Applicant_______________________________________________________

                                          Last                                 First                              Middle

   ____Male     ____Female    Social Number_________________________________   

 Current High School_________________________ School Division_______________

 Name of Parent(s)/Guardian(s)_____________________________________________

 Home Address___________________________________________________________

                                     Street                                                 City                             Zip

 Home Phone Number (_____)___________Work Phone Number(___)____________

 E-Mail Address:_________________________________________________________

 Names of Teachers Completing Recommendations:

 English____________________________________

 Math______________________________________ 

 Science____________________________________

 TO BE COMPLETED BY APPLICANT

The decision to apply to the Piedmont Governor’s School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology is my own, and I want to participate fully in this program.  I have read in its entirety the application procedures, including the application forms, and am aware of the appeals process of my school division.

_________________________________________  Date____________________

               Signature of Applicant

TO BE COMPLETED BY PARENT/GUARDIAN

I, the parent/guardian of the above named student, am aware of and am in full support of the student’s application to the Piedmont Governor’s School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology and give my permission for the student’s academic records to be reviewed by the division’s Selection Committee.  I have read in its entirety the application procedures, including the application forms and am aware of the appeals process of my school division.

_________________________________________  Date____________________

         Signature of Parent/Guardian

STUDENTS RECORDS

TO BE COMPLETED BY THE STUDENT

                                Last                                                        First                                                       Middle

 Social Security Number_________________________Grade Level___________  Male___Female___

 Name of Parent(s)/Guardian(s)__________________________________________________________

 Address______________________________________________________________________________

                                Street                                                     City                                                        Zip

 Home Phone (___)_______________                          Work Phone (___)_________________

 E-mail Address: _____________________________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED BY THE GIFTED COORDINATOR/GUIDANCE COUNSELOR

 Name of Guidance Counselor or Designee__________________________________________________

 Please attach an official copy of the student’s transcript with the GPA calculated as unweighted and an official copy of most recent standardized test data.

 Information due to__________________________________________Date Due____________________

 Signature of Guidance Counselor or Designee_______________________________________________

Information on Writing Sample and other standardized tests

To complete the evaluation procedures for identifying finalists and alternates for each school division’s slots for the Piedmont Governor’s School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology, School Division Selection Committees will establish division timetables for administering the timed writing sample, the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, the Matrix Analogy Test, and the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Students from those school divisions that do not administer the science segment of a standardized achievement test will need to also take that test section on the testing day.  All applicants in each division will meet at a central location within their respective school divisions for approximately a three-four hour period for the administering of these components of the evaluation.  This testing day may be held on a Saturday morning.

The timed writing sample will require all applicants to write on the same topic for not more than thirty minutes.  The topic will allow students the opportunity to demonstrate their writing skills in choosing a position on a subject, supporting that position, and drawing a conclusion.

The Otis-Lennon Ability Test is a group ability timed test.  The Metropolitan Achievement Test is a group achievement timed test, and the Matrix Analogy Test is a group spatial and reasoning timed test.