Of the 75 Cary Academy seventh graders who qualified (based on ERB results) for the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) to take the SAT or ACT, 41 students took advantage of this opportunity.

Those who scored 510 or above on the math or verbal sections of the SAT or 20 or above on the math or English sections, or 21 or above on the reading or science reasoning sections of the ACT will receive state recognition at a ceremony at Campbell University on May 11.

Students who scored 650 or above on math or verbal (SAT) or 28 or above on math or English, 30 on reading, or 27 on science reasoning (ACT) will receive recognition at the grand ceremony on Duke's Campus on May 17.

Twenty-nine of the students who took the ACT or SAT scored well enough to receive state or grand recognition – that’s 29 percent of the seventh grade class.

Students receiving recognition include: Grand level recognition, Robert Murphy; and State level recognition, Bryan Abadie, Abigail Andrews, Omar Bajwa, Jacqueline Bennett, Ava Britt, Jordan Clark, Veronica Clark, David Dement, Ryan Dunn, Andrew Flook, Caroline Griswold, Jonathan Jakubowski, Firoz Jameel, Mark Larus, Ian Molvie, William Moore, Therice Morris, Joshua Orol, John Peebles, Ross Plastina, Michael Rooney, Sarah Smith, Sonja Thalheimer, Nathaniel Ting, Maya Vulgaropulos, Kathleen Wang and Benjamin Williams.