CTY for math

[Anonymous]

High honre simply means you are in the highest scoring one third of all the applicants taking the particular level of the SCAT exam for that year. Not a high academic bar but a low marketing and recruiting bar!!

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Anonymous wrote:My 16 DS has been in CTY for both math and humanities for years. He's in high school but taking math and a few other things at the local university s he splits his day between his private Catholic high school and the university. I would say place your child in a school that is a good fit for their personality and your family. CTY will provide plenty of challenge, but it would be helpful if you wanted to talk to the teacher and administration at your current school (if you love it) and see if they will let her go to the library to do CTY during math period. That's what worked for my DS

It's pretty silly to pay tuition at an independent school and then pay more for an overpriced and mediocre online math course. CTY is a big money making machine.

I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CTY cutoff.

You're friendly

My ds did qualify and was invited to the award ceremony. The CTY math program is not any better than self study or other online math programs (3 months of using their math software is over $700), and their summer programs are very expensive and not nearly as beneficial as other university based summer programs.

So instead of snarking on everyone, which is useless, why don't you actually give OP some useful review, pros/cons and links to programs that you feel are superior.

Duke, Vanderbilt, and UVA all have great programs for kids working at an advanced level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High honre simply means you are in the highest scoring one third of all the applicants taking the particular level of the SCAT exam for that year. Not a high academic bar but a low marketing and recruiting bar!!

I agree that the bar is pretty low for the honors level. I felt like it was a really strange to be having an honors ceremony at all - it was like they needed to create something that made parents feel like their child was "special". We weren't looking for that, nor were we looking to "commend" our child for it. We ignored it....

That said, the camp is great for the kind of kid who would like this sort of thing. Our child is young so there aren't a lot of other similar options. It is admittedly not cheap...at all.