<p>I have a son at a session, word I hear is that it is fun but highly supervised (he is one of the older kids), and that the material is not as challenging as we had expected.</p>
<p>My daughter is at the Baltimore site after having been at Carlisle and Lancaster--it is highly supervised in comparison! She's in the Genomics course--which she is finding more challenging than other CTY courses in the past but she also feels she is learning much more. Where is your son at?</p>
<p>I went to CAA(...a "less advanced" division of CTY, the same in every aspect pretty much only we only scored in the top 3% or whatever) two years ago. I accidentally signed up for a class lol..and i got stuck with it so I didnt like the class that much but it was amazing for meeting friends, etc. I really bonded with the people in my hall. It was EXTREMELY supervised though.</p>
<p>S is in Hawaii.</p>
<p>Our experience with CTY courses has been varied...this year by far has been the most challenging in terms of curriculum. She's always enjoyed it for the social aspects and has made a lot of good friends. We pick her up today and then Sunday head off for Lancaster.</p>
<p>Final report - material got more interesting, although never difficult per se. Other kids were huge plus. Program was big success.</p>
<p>I went to first session this year and took Crafting the Essay. It was my fifth year (and final year by choice)at the CTY program. In the past I've taken Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Model United Nations and Advance Geography, Ethics, and Logic: Principles of Reasoning. The first two were at the younger students camp.
At the younger students camp, there is a lot of RA supervision. At the two sites I went to, you weren't allowed out of your building unless your RA brought you out to have fun. Most of the free time was spent talking and playing cards. However there is only an hour or two of free time each day, so it's not a big deal. THere are a lot of planned activities and such and it's not easy to get bored.
At the older students camp (7th grade and above), there is less RA supervision. Between 7:30 and 9:45, whenever there is free time, you are allowed to roam around a specific part of campus, usually a field or a quad. You walk by yourself to class, meals, and at some sites, activities, but are required to attend all of them. A lot of time is spent talking, fooling around, and frisbee and four-square are really popular.
Academic-wise, I find it hard to measure how much you really learn in a writing or a humanities course. I have to say however, I was never gifted in writing, and most of my writing skills come from taking 4 years worth of humanities at CTY. In the math course, I was overprepared, having taken algebra before that summer, but I still learned a lot. I learned how to do proofs, think outside of the box, and a lot of random stuff. </p>
<p>I love CTY. It's my second home, and the friends you meet there are amazing. I think the best part about it is the social life.</p>
<p>my older son ,11, loves cty. he did crystals and polymers this year, he was nervous because some of the kids were older but he learned a lot. he comes home every year with renewed self confidence. at his school they told him 'doors are closed' to him but at cty the excellent teacher helped him learn how to take notes and he go a lot out of it in many respects, not least that he met really fun kids he keeps in touch with throughout the year.</p>
<p>Sister at CTY Lan doing math seq.
Only 7 math sequence people there and only 1 other for geometrey. Rain is cancelling all the weekend activites and they are having dances in the ASFC and Meyre Gym. Ha! Now you know how it feels. Imagine eating lunch in a tent!!! Oh the nostalgia!</p>
<p>My daughter's at LAN now...surprisingly, she had a better first session in Baltimore, where they had torrential rains the entire first week. I think it's all about the "mix" of people that are there. She's missing a lot of friends that were "no mores" or "nevermores" last year...the atmosphere is different.</p>
<p>I was a nomore last year, I wonder how much really has changed. I know they still play...</p>
<p>I LOSE!</p>
<p>I am a CTY alum (2000-2002, Carlisle and Lancaster) and based on current reports it is much stricter now than it used to be. From speaking to alumni before me, apparently even my time was pretty strict- THEY were allowed to leave campus occasionally and have sleepovers!</p>
<p>Funny, sis left campus for a soccer tourney and sleepover are good on FRI and SAT (and last day if your RA is cool) as far as I remember. CTY alum (2002-2005 Lancaster)</p>
<p>I LOSE
were u in my number theory class?</p>
<p>I might have been, hit me a PM, I was second session 05.</p>
<p>I lose.</p>
<p>why did you both so I lose? Im confused.</p>
<p>Its the game, now, because you asked I am obligated to provide you with the rules. </p>
<p><a href="http://losethegame.com/%5B/url%5D">http://losethegame.com/</a></p>
<p>CTY gives new meaning to "Big brother is watching"</p>