According to statistics compiled by Wu Wu-tien, director of the NTNU Special Education Center, in the sample year of 1989 there were 2,432 gifted children in middle schools and high schools around Taiwan, of whom 113 were allowed to skip a grade, 184 were allowed to go on to high school without taking the entrance exams and 62 were allowed to go on to college without doing so.
根據師大特殊教育研究所所長吳武典的統計，以民國七十八年為例，全台灣國中、高中共二千四百三十二名資優生中（不包括特殊才能優異生，跳級者有一百一十三名；而由國中升高中、由高中升大學，免試入學的也各有一百八十四名及六十二名，成為「不必聯考的小子」。