Duke TIP?

[SLK1]

If she hasn't then we probably need a different sort of thread!

ZOMBIE thread alert!

I should check dates more often!

 

[Lorelei Lee]

It's great to expose your child to the test at that age, and getting their scores kind of shows you what their strengths and weaknesses are and gives you an idea of what to watch for for when they're taking it for college.

However, I have to disagree with people who say it looks good on college applications. I have one in college at U. of Florida and one getting ready to graduate high school. During our college visits, admissions officers ALWAYS have said they do not care one iota about what your child did before high school, unless it's Girl Scout Gold Award or Boy Scout Eagle Award, and those are usually earned in high school anyway. They look for sustained volunteer service (meaning something they stuck with, not picked up hours here or there), strength of schedule of classes, AP/IB/Honors classes, standardized test scores (taken in junior and senior year, not 7th grade), GPA, and of course how well-rounded they are.

Either way, being asked to participate is a nice honor and shows your kid is on the right track!

Exactly. My daughter didn't participate in the program, she had friends who did. Where they went to college had nothing to do with middle school programs, only what they did in high school.

On the other hand, one of my daughter's friends who took some science courses at Johns Hopkins is in a med school program now...it was an interest she developed while in the program.

Didn't realize it was a zombie thread, but the person who resurrected it must have been interested in the topic.

 

[okeydokey]

This thread is three years old - I bet the OP has already made her decision .

Yes we did!

My DD has done two years and has loved it. Her final year is this year as she ages out after that. The experience has been phenomenal for her, she was able to take a course that is not available in our local schools, live in a college dorm, gain confidence and independence and spread her wings.

In fact, this year my son will be attending for the first time, so we have an empty nest for three weeks. He scored higher on the ACT and qualified for the upper lever Center and is trying to decide location and class now. I highly recommend this program to anyone who can make it happen.

 

[TanyaS]

Joining the zombie thread, since I was just looking at the Duke summer camp brochure with DS#1 today. He didn't apply last summer, but is planning on applying to attend one of one of the three-week long math camps.

DS#2 will be taking the SAT later this month.

One nice thing about taking the SAT as a middle schooler is you get to experience and learn what taking the test is really like - like how fast those 25 minutes sections go by and how exhausting the whole test is - but then your scores magically go away (poof!) and colleges don't have to see them, unlike taking the test in high school.

One bad thing is having to admit to your middle schooler that he scored better on the SAT in 7th grade than you did in 11th grade.

One piece of advice before your child takes the SAT: if they aren't fluent in cursive writing, they might want to practice. DS said several of the kids in his room didn't know how to write the paragraph they were asked to write in cursive.

 

[TanyaS]

Just completed the application for one of the Duke summer camps for DS#1. He wants to take "Mobius Strips, Klein Bottles, and Fractals: The Mathematics of Distortion"

Certainly not a camp I would have ever wanted to attend.

Anyone else's child applying for this summer's camps?

 

[okeydokey]

Oops double post.

 

[okeydokey]

My daughter is doing the academy at UGA and is doing Criminal Law: Mock Trial.

My son is doing the The Center at Duke East and is Studying Spy 101: Cryptography and Number Theory.

They are also doing FSU band camp in July.

 

[TanyaS]

Do you think applications made today will get their first choice?

I have heard that the camps fill up very quickly, but hope DS gets the one he wants. He didn't go last year.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Do you think applications made today will get their first choice?

I have heard that the camps fill up very quickly, but hope DS gets the one he wants. He didn't go last year.

Maybe. Depends on how many people are applying.

My dd went all 3 yrs and took classes and loved every minute of it.

Now she is a JR in HS and looking for real. Taking classes really helped her narrow down her interests and the things she learned at the University helped her in HS as well.

If you get in, can afford it and your child wants to go it is a great experience. Plus they get a taste of "dorm life" and now she knows what to expect.

My dd went to Truman University and their program called "Joseph Baldwin Academy" is wonderful. They had so many fun things for the kids to do outside of class. Kept them busy all the time.

Good Luck to everyone!

 

[okeydokey]

Got my son's application in to the Center on the first day and he was waitlisted in all his choices.

My daughter is attending the Academy as a fourth year and is all set.

Anyone else get a waitlist email? If you have a child that has been waitlisted in the past, did they eventually get a placement?

 

[VeeHam]

I have to say I am so glad this thread was resurrected.
I received a letter today that my 4th grader qualifies for the Duke Tip. I had never heard of it before. We have discussed this with her and she is interested in taking the Explore test. She is hoping she gets accepted every year although she just made it in with a 95%. The summer programs sound like a lot of fun.

 

[miatamel]

My DD just got her letter Friday that she got in her first choice--but it's in San Antonio. Anybody have any experience with Trinity University there? Hard to send your 12 year old off a couple states over to a place you know nothing about!

 

[Mokat76]

Don't know the program but Trinity is a very nice, small liberal arts college in a very pretty part of town slightly north of downtown SA. I wouldn't hesitate to send her. What a great opportunity.

 

[Cancun4]

Does anyone have experience with the online summer program? My son is 12 (7th grade) and qualifies for the campus programs, but we are not interested in him being out of state for that long (nor the bill that accompanies it!)

I just have to say....DISboards is great. I just spent weeks browsing forums and getting my questions answered about my WDW/DCL vacation, and now I'm getting info on Duke TIP of all things!

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

my DD is a freshman in college and she just had a psych test that was super hard and the majority of the kids had problems with it. When she called she said she didn't have as much trouble with it as the others -- one of the Duke TIP weekend classes she took in school was on psychology and she remembered the info from that very intensive weekend.

She was a Duke TIPs kid since 7th grade and benefited in lots of ways.

 

[artichoke]

My daughter is doing the academy at UGA and is doing Criminal Law: Mock Trial.

My son is doing the The Center at Duke East and is Studying Spy 101: Cryptography and Number Theory.

They are also doing FSU band camp in July.

My son is going to CTY Intensive Studies this year, which is sort of like TIP Center I guess. He's taking Electrical Engineering but his second choice was Cryptology.

From the catalog descriptions the TIP Spy course looks better than CTY Cryptology, a bit more in-depth. Let me know how your son likes Spy. If it's good, maybe my son will come to TIP next year for that.

 

[pryncess527]

I did that program when I was in middle school. I can't say it has provided me with any tangible benefit, but I do think I walked into the SAT in high school with a great deal more confidence after having done relatively well on it in 7th grade.

 

[pooh4evr]

our oldest DD has been part of it since 4th grade, she is in 7th now. She has done a few of the online courses, and took the ACT this winter. I'm not sure there are any concrete benefits other than using it as a test prep kind of thing.

 

[mnrose]

My son took the EXPLORE test as a second grader, and both my kids took the ACT in 6th grade. It provided us insight into how advanced (or not) they were compared to regular kids taking the exams. And, it has earned them invitations to boarding schools (as if....LOL!), and summer programs. I like it for the experience in test taking so that they (hopefully) will be less nervous when it counts. They will be taking either the ACT or the SAT on an annual basis starting next year (they will be 9th graders by age).

Is it worth the money? Hard to say. We can afford it. If I couldn't, I sure wouldn't be breaking the budget to do it. And the summer programs were VERY expensive...I could take my entire family for a week long vacation for what it cost for one week for one kid. We've never done them for that reason.

 

[okeydokey]

My son is going to CTY Intensive Studies this year, which is sort of like TIP Center I guess. He's taking Electrical Engineering but his second choice was Cryptology.

From the catalog descriptions the TIP Spy course looks better than CTY Cryptology, a bit more in-depth. Let me know how your son likes Spy. If it's good, maybe my son will come to TIP next year for that.

Unfortunately, my son never got off the wait list so he did not get a class this summer. We will try again next year.

However, he was able it use the ACT score to enroll in a dual enrollment class next year in 9th, so it was valuable in that regard.

I am taking my daughter to her last year at TIP and wish my son could go too, but it was not to be.