<p>@herandhis, Now I understand your concern. will pm you. take it easy.</p>
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How many is many?</p>
<p>About 10 years ago I met a young married couple, who first met at TIP and became a couple with a long distance relationship. Both were admitted ea to the same ivy. One kept in another application and was offered and accepted a full tuition scholarship at a different school. Later they attended the same graduate school. Then they got married.</p>
<p>good luck</p>
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Well as many as possible for CTYers. At this age it’s “many”, don’t you think? Anyway I can see significant difference in their maturity and their understanding to emotions. From the little bit I see, the boy is much “mature”. </p>
<p>@alh, Wow! 
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<p>Thanks Maxwell, and all.</p>
<p>I also have married friends who met at CTY, though at a slightly older age (staff). They’ve been married for well over a decade.</p>
<p>Make sure she stays engaged with the people she sees on a daily basis, not instead of, but in addition to. Don’t let her check out of day to day social life.</p>
<p>Hearing the age difference reminds me that D had a pretty intense online relationship with a college student (freshman, I think) when she was in about 8th grade. She met him through the CTY Cogito site. I don’t think it was more than a friendship, but they still communicated A LOT. He was far away, they never met in person, I don’t think it did any harm.</p>
<p>My daughter’s experience at CTY was great…but she didn’t find the friends she met there to be that much different than the ones she has here at home. For her, it was the actual experience of being away from home for the first time rather than her peers that proved to be the most liberating part of the CTY experience.</p>
<p>I apologize in advance but I just can’t help myself:</p>
<p>WHAT THE HE** is CTY?</p>
<p>Center for Talented Youth, run through Johns Hopkins (with programs at several different campuses). There are several similar programs, such as TIP (Talent Identification Program) run through Duke and CTD (Center for Talent Development) run through Northwestern, but CTY is by far the largest.</p>
<p>Center for Talented Youth, an org affiliated with Johns Hopkins that identifies youth with high test scores in the middle school (earlier- I am not sure), and invites them to participate in programs with HS and college level curricula at various sites around the country, mostly during the summer.</p>
<p>It is a form of enrichment for gifted kids.
There are several other programs that are similar.</p>
<p>Thank you! </p>
<p>It was driving me crazy that even from the “context” clues and googling, I couldn’t figure out what you folks were talking about!</p>
<p>Best of luck to all you parents of particularly talented teens.</p>
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It must depend on the area where you’re from. Some areas have concentrated great kids, others don’t. My D. found CTY peers VERY different compared to the peers she’s with everyday. Even though she has local friends and quite loves them, she definitely enjoys a lot more being with those in CTY.</p>
<p>In our neighborhood, the kids are certainly very different from those in CTY. D. is so attracted to CTY and the friends there. She is getting better though, decided to go to homecoming with some friends. At this age, attention span is still pretty short, which could be a good thing. :)</p>
<p>My daughter went to homecoming with a bunch of friends last week (she’s a freshman in high school). They had a blast! She ended up being so happy she didn’t go with a date because the kids in groups seemed to be having a lot more fun. :)</p>