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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does Curie offer Summer classes?[/quote]
Yes, Curie offers a wide range of summer STEM courses.  We are enrolled at Curie during the year for academics, and DC wants to continue challenge during the summer as well, but do something more interesting.  We enrolled in Robotics & Arduinos last summer, and this summer looking forward to Product Design STEM Camp.  There is also the Creative Writing Bootcamp, where as part of final project DC wrote an amazing story about visiting Galapagos Islands with their favorite Marvel characters.  [/quote]
Thank you we will look into those classes right way. DC is a hard core marvel fan too. lol.  [/quote]
We are very happy with Curie, but almost every Curie class is full. Please be considerate to existing students and don't make it more crowded. Please consider other enrichment centers.  [/quote]

About how many total kids go to Curie?[/quote]
Curie has multiple locations as well as online classes.  They dont publish counts but likely few hundreds.  [/quote]
One year they had over 100 admits to TJ so obviously that many.  But could the number be close to 1000 8th graders?[/quote]

[b]I have a feeling many of those kids would get in without thus program[/b].  At the end of the day it's just like taking a practice SAT test.  Eventually you have to also keep up in class.[/quote]

Well no.  Obviously they would not have - that was one of the reasons they changed the admissions test.  Did they do fine once they got in? Probably.  But no, without the specific prep directed at strategies for answering specific test questions, they would not have gotten in

That's why I think the new test is so clever.  It's much less hackable (cheatable).  [/quote] Once you account for per school quota, I think Curie's results have gone up.  It is easier to prep kids fpr an essay than for advanced math problems.[/quote]
You are funny. No one enrolls in Curie to prep for a [b]silly essay[/b]. As was mentioned above, Curie Learning has always taught math, science, and english enrichment for advanced learners.  It's the significant volume of Curie students that apply to  TJ that result in their high acceptance numbers. [/quote]

DP.  Who is funny?  The essays are the most important part of the application, since everyone who is eligible is taking similar classes and has a similar profile.  They may be "light" or "silly" in your opinion but they are serious enough to allow the admissions people to pick their admitted class.  [/quote]

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