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'''CTY''' is a summer camp where students get to learn and have fun. This website is devoted to describing everything about CTY, but you should find the basics at this page (once it's written).
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[[CTY]] is a summer camp where students get to learn and have fun in a tolerant, open community. This website is devoted to describe every aspect of CTY experience.
  
== Acronyms of CTY ==
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CTY officially stands for Center for Talented Youth (although there are many other student-created [[CTY expansions]]), and is run by Johns Hopkins University.  It accepts all qualified students who have completed the 7th grade up until the age of 18.  As a condition of admission to CTY, students must take the College Board SAT far earlier than normal (usually 7th or 8th grade) and earn a score higher than that of the average college-bound senior.
  
* CTY stands for things, like my personal favorites, the [[Center for Bad Spellers]], Center for Troubled Youth, Closet Taoists like Yourself, and Confinement for Twisted Youth  See [[CTY acronyms]] for a good list.
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It should be noted that although CTY was created for intelligent students to learn outside the boundaries of school, it has become so much more. Many people feel CTY is the greatest sense of community and love they have ever experienced, and the love and memories stay with them for a lifetime. CTY changes lives. Because of this, people are motivated to return even after they have taken all the classes that interest them.
  
*In 1995, I asked a teacher for a letter of recommendation. He asked what CTY was, and I responded with the correct answer and then some of the wittier alternatives to show how smart everything there must be to think of things like "Center for Troubled Youth." I gave him the course book, so he could get a better idea of just what goes on. Apparently he didn't look at it when he wrote the letter, because when I got it it was, in fact, addressed to the "Center for Troubled Youth." I was mortified and retyped it and corrected it and used a photocopier to get his signature from the first letter. I never told him, thinking that it was more fun to be thought of as troubled by him than talented.
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*At the Skidmore Site, session 1 2006, an RA overheard a conversation between several CTYers and rinas.  The rinas were being stupid, as usual, and asked if CTY stood for "Ceriously Talented Youth."  It took them a moment to realize their stupidity.  No surprise.
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== Organizational history of CTY ==
 
 
 
* [[CTY organization history]]
 
 
 
== Personal meaning of CTY ==
 
A lot of students have written personal essays on what CTY means to them.  You can find them, along with assorted comments, at '[[Essays]].'
 

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CTY is a summer camp where students get to learn and have fun in a tolerant, open community. This website is devoted to describe every aspect of CTY experience.

CTY officially stands for Center for Talented Youth (although there are many other student-created CTY expansions), and is run by Johns Hopkins University. It accepts all qualified students who have completed the 7th grade up until the age of 18. As a condition of admission to CTY, students must take the College Board SAT far earlier than normal (usually 7th or 8th grade) and earn a score higher than that of the average college-bound senior.

It should be noted that although CTY was created for intelligent students to learn outside the boundaries of school, it has become so much more. Many people feel CTY is the greatest sense of community and love they have ever experienced, and the love and memories stay with them for a lifetime. CTY changes lives. Because of this, people are motivated to return even after they have taken all the classes that interest them.