Duke TIP

TIP is a talent identification program similar to CTY but run by Duke. Of the kids who have attended both camps, some prefer CTY, and some prefer TIP. Students that have attended TIP are called TIPsters. Occasionally, TIPsters may edit RealCTY pages to assert TIP's "superiority." Some TIPsters believe that CTY has "stolen" traditions, and indeed there are questions about where and when "American Pie" and a few other canon songs first popped up, but CTY's traditions remain quite distinctive. In addition, according to the TIP wiki, during a session in 2005 a "tradition was borrowed from the Center for Talented youth program [sic] (CTY), where after 'This will be the day that I die' you yell 'die, die, die, die, live, live, live, live, sex, sex, sex, sex, more, more, more, more' and then go back to being sad in your circle."

If you'd like to learn more about TIP and gain insights on their perspectives, visit their wiki [1] here, but please stay respectful and do not edit their wiki. The TIP wiki is formatted somewhat differently than our own.

Information about TIP summer sessions can be found here [2]. Their campuses are split up by grade, so seventh and some eighth graders are grouped together and eighth through tenth graders are grouped together. In contrast, at CTY, seventh through eleventh graders share the same campus areas and are grouped based on classes.

CTD (Center for Talent Development) is similar to CTY and TIP but is run by Northwestern University.

There is also a talent search in the Rocky Mountains called the Rocky Mountain Talent Search, run by Denver University. (If there is a wiki, similar to realcty or the TIPwiki, that exists for these programs, please add a link to it here).