<p>My 12 yr old S is leaning towards registering for the Writing and Imagination CTY summer course. Anyone here familiar with this course and can give me your opinions/feedback? He looked through the catalog - picked out a few courses and then came up with this course as his first choice.</p>
<p>Can you just register for this or do you have to apply/be accepted?</p>
<p>For these courses, once you meet the minimal score requirements you are automatically accepted. I have heard wonderful things about Writing and Imagination, though my area of personal experience comes only from CTY grades 7 and above classes which have been wonderful. I have so far taken 3 CTY writing courses and will be taking my 4th this summer and have found all of them to be superb. The instructors were so well qualified and the material was much more interesting, challenging, and creative than anything I had seen in school.</p>
<p>arisamp: I think you’ll find your son in very good hand. If he gets what my d. got, he’ll get the benefit no words can describe.</p>
<p>acme - the student should have taken the Johns Hopkins SCAT test and should have met certain minimum score requirements. </p>
<p>All - thanks for your feedback - this seems to be the one course that he really wants to do - guess we will go ahead and register.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the specific course doesn’t matter all that much. Rather, it’s the social experience of CTY that makes the most lasting impression on many of the kids. “Nerd camp” (as they call it) may be the first chance they get to be with like-minded peers.</p>