Program draws bright students together
Archaeology, Oceanography, Robotics, and Existentialism are just a few of the over one-hundred CTY courses available in two three-week sessions over the summer: 6/24 - 7/13, and 7/15 - 8/03. This format permits students to work at a challenging pace, explore topics in depth, and study subjects not often available to students their age.

Classes are offered at 26 sites, from Johns Hopkins University in the east to Stanford University in the west. CTY has also filled its new international summer programs at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China, and at the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico. Residential programs, available to students in grades 5-12, provide the opportunity to live, study, and socialize with other bright, motivated students. Day programs in Baltimore/DC and Los Angeles are open to students in grades 2-6.

“These teens are an academic elite,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta in last fall’s CNN special, Genius: Quest for Extreme Brain Power. “As smart as they are, they want to be smarter. So they come . . . to the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, or CTY, with alumni like Sergey Brin, who went on to co-found Google.”

Academic “talent search” is program gateway
Students qualified for this special program by participating in CTY’s academic Talent Search, which accepts applications from early September to late May. Students in seventh and eighth grade take the SAT or ACT—the same tests taken by college-bound juniors and seniors. Students in second through sixth grades take the SCAT--similar to the SAT and ACT but scaled for younger students.

“CTY has an excellent academic program,” says 5-year CTY student Tom Flaherty. “But I cannot stress enough how awesome it is for the gifted to experience camaraderie. The social world is turned downside up and outside in, so much so that even the most radically gifted will find themselves among peers.”