<p>Does any one know about SIG?How is it? I am planning to enroll for their program at Princeton University.</p>
<p>Is it worth or i shld look for sum other program.</p>
<p>How old are you? (That is, what school grade are you in?) There are many programs that are less expensive and more well known, but which of those you might like depends on your interests. </p>
<p>Its So Expensive Thoo!!!!!!! Look For Ones That They Pay You</p>
<p>I checked one review site and said it is good.</p>
<p>Yan, which site did u check?Have u heard of this dis program from someone u kno.</p>
<p>Here is the review for SIG UCLA .
<a href="http://www.insidecamps.com/review/camp-information.php?item_id=1087%5B/url%5D">http://www.insidecamps.com/review/camp-information.php?item_id=1087</a>
Bryn Mawr College
<a href="http://www.insidecamps.com/review/camp-information.php?item_id=1079%5B/url%5D">http://www.insidecamps.com/review/camp-information.php?item_id=1079</a>
Princeton University
no review yet.
I am trying to look into the one in PA and haven't make the final decesion yet.
After you enroll, you can have access to some other websites.
share what you find if you can.</p>
<p>someone tell me bout this....</p>
<p>I think Princeton University's one is news.</p>
<p>I'll appreciate hearing from alumni of this program about what they think of it.</p>
<p>Son did this two summers ago at UCLA and enjoyed the program. He made a lot of friends and took five required classes -3 academic, 1 sport, 1 art-drama.</p>
<p>My daughter attended SIG program at Vassar college after 7th grade, I think. She had a good time and made friends, but academically, it was very weak. She was taking writing and art classes, and, in my opinion, she gained absolutely nothing from the classes. She was already at a more advanced level in both writing and art. I got the feeling that the program was recreational first and academic second. It was expensive too. And it is definitely not selective.</p>
<p>the program required top 5% of the national standard test. I think it is not easy to get into. You need to be in gifted program. so..</p>
<p>I don't think this program is selective at all...well ...top 5% on a national standardized test is not that hard to acheive.</p>
<p>jsyoo7, what summer programs are there that pay you? i havent heard of any</p>
<p>DD attended SIG at Emory this past summer. It may be OK for younger students, but she (now in 10th grade) was not challenged at all. She has attended many other summer camps and gives SIG at Emory a thumbs down. She was especially annoyed with the demeanor/lack of leadership by the counselors (they were very condescending to the students) and with the exception of one teacher, she was unimpressed with the teaching staff. FWIW, many of the teachers were NOT college professors which you are led to believe in the brochures about SIG. Also for the price ($4k for 3 weeks) we were both very disappointed in what was touted as a very high-quality program. Definitely would not recommend this program to anyone based on DD's experience. Also FWIW, she did bring her concerns about the counselors to the attention of the administrators during camp and nothing was done about it. SIG brochures claim that over 90% of students would choose to return to SIG but based on what other students said to DD, none of the students that she met would ever return. Sorry to be so negative but this was a big expenditure for our family and we sincerely believe that we were misled about what SIG offered to students.</p>
<p>My daughter is entering 7th grade and wants to go to an academically oriented overnight camp. Does anyone know about the quality and the type of experience the kids at Amherst SIG have?</p>
<p>@ srk
I went to SIG amherst a few years ago. It was a fun experience, and I met a lot of new friends. The campus is beautiful and the residential aspect is fine if you are willing to cope with the >85Farenheit room temperatures in the dorms.</p>
<p>However, the academic aspect was laughable. I am not particularly smart, but I found that the courses at SIG were only a little more difficult than the courses at my public school. (When I went to SIG, I took courses more advanced then my age would permit by talking to the academic dean. Still, the courses were a joke, and I didn't learn a thing.)</p>
<p>Although SIG is a good social and residential experience, those qualities do not justify the 4K price tag. The following year, I attended CTY, and found it to be a much better program. The course was very challenging, and the residential/social aspects were even better. It's also 1k cheaper.</p>
<p>Both our children attended many years of SIG at Bryn Mawr. I look at it very differently now than I did then. It is expensive, but to us, in the end, it was worth it. The classes were interesting, and in many cases they did not come home with wonderful new knowledge. It took me a couple years to realize that for these kids, that's not the point. That may be our issue as parents, but my kids wanted to go back every year. THey learned to live on their own in a college setting (well supervised, but they thought they were on their own). They chose their classes, and were responsible for participating and getting something out of it. The most important thing - they spent 3 weeks each summer with kids like them, and that was the experience they wanted. My son is at Swarthmore, and my daughter will go to Hopkins in September. My daughter will tell you that SIG was the single most important thing she did in middle school and early high school (and this kid has played soccer around the country on a nationally ranked team, but it's SIG that meant the most!).
I know some people will want their child to learn something over the summer. These kids know how to learn; in most cases they have to learn how to survive without us and be comfortable doing so. That's what really got them ready for college!</p>
<p>I am currently having the exact same issue with the program. My rising 5th grader is currently at Stuart SIG. Her school does not have a gifted program, so we sent two letters of recommendation, thinking we would have trouble getting in. She is a high achiever with straight As, and a truly unique and internal love for learning. She begged me to find an academic camp, as summer is too log for her. She’s reports that the school is light on academic challenges, and that she’s in class with at least one rising third grader, not what I would have expected. The talent show today was a combination of disappointing and embarrassing. If these kids’ overall giftedness matches their talent, this is not a school exclusively accepting only high achievers. My lasting impression is that they will take anyone’s money. This family will be digging deeper next year for academic rigor.</p>
<p>Hi, I did SIG Princeton last summer (2010) and although I did make a lot of friends and the staff were nice in general, I thought that it was a waste of my parents’ $4,995. The aspect of SIG that appealed to me the most was the 5 courses per day schedule. I attended CTY the year before and I LOVED it, my teacher was friendly yet super knowledgeable about her subject, and even the teaching assistant was extremely helpful in the classroom environment. Furthermore, CTY had a lot of super fun traditions and special events that made it special. In SIG, the courses I took was a law course, a vocabulary course, a thinking outside the box course, a debate course, and one other course i can’t even remember and is not on the course list anymore. For the law course, this was the only one I genuinely enjoyed, since I had a relatively smaller class and we did real cases and reenacted them. For the vocab course, all we did was memorize vocabulary…I felt like I could have done that at home. For the thinking course, it was just a bit of an odd class and I didn’t really feel like my thinking methods or strategies were significantly expanded after the class. For the debate course, it was alright, but the amount of things I learnt were the same amount from when I signed up for a debate activity for one afternoon in CTY. All in all, it was a huge waste of my money, i mean, $5000 for the amount of knowledge i learnt? You’re much better off doing summer reading or following your parents to work. However, some people I knew loved it, but they were extremely socializing people, so they had camp boy/girlfriends and that’s really all that mattered to them.</p>