TIP

The Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) is a program for gifted students that is very similar to CTY, and can be sometimes referred to by CTYers as "the CTY of the south" (as there are no sites south of JHU). TIP is also known to share many canon songs and a few alike traditions. For instance, TIP canon includes:

-Blister In The Sun -It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) -Time Warp -Tunak Tunak Tun -Iris -Nightswimming

and even

-American Pie

TIP also has some similar tradition days, such as Wear A Skirt Wednesday (Drag Day) and Casino Day (Casino Night), while also having traditions unique to the program/site. They also have a talent show and end-of-term slideshow (term = session).

Sites

TIP has 7 sites for their equivalent of the Intensive Studies program, all located in the southeastern region/southern center of the United States. Their campuses are:

-Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) -Davidson College (Davidson, NC) -New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL) -Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) -Duke East (Durham, NC) [This site is known for being the most tradition heavy, e.g. the equivalent of Lancaster] -Duke West (Durham, NC) [Roughly the equivalent of Carlisle] -Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)

Other

If you want to learn more about TIP, you can visit the official webpage and their student-run wiki site.