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<p>Uh, maybe she and / or her spouse went to Yale, Columbia and UCLA? @@</p>
<p>I am with PackMom, Duke TIP in NC is not a big issue. Our DS was offered TIP, but this goes back yrs ago and I guess they have changed it because he was only in 4th grade. We turned down the offer. In NC TIP attracts alot of kids because of the summer programs overseas, which is very expensive. This program at least yrs ago was like NYLF. They approach academically gifted children, but there is a money maker hiding in the program.</p>
<p>I have friends whose kids were in TIP and in the end of the day TIP was not a make or break issue when it comes to college admissions.</p>
<p>If the parent wants to place it on, maybe it is because the child wants it there. Our DD got inducted into Beta in 7th grade, they gave her a window decal and she wanted to put it on my car. I agreed, but said it went on her window. (it was 2 x2, not big). You could not see it because the tinting of the windows, but it made her happy because she worked for it.</p>
<p>Pizza, you beat me to it regarding Yale, Columbia and UCLA…i.e UCLA - undergrad, Yale - Masters and Columbia - Ph.D.</p>
<p>Funny thread. H and I don’t put any “kid” stickers on our cars. Occasionally we put them on the kid’s cars just to irritate the kids. S3 is a jock. S2 is an anti-jock so we (my H and I) plastered all of S3’s football, lacrosse, jock etc. stickers on S2’s car just to tick him off. We put them on the back bumper where he wouldn’t see them when he jumped in the car and wouldn’t even notice until he washed the car. The “my kid is an honor blah, blah blah” we stuck in a drawer. If the kids wanted it on a vehicle we would have put it on (their car), but the kids didn’t’ want them on the car.</p>
<p>My daughter did TIP for three summers a number of years ago. At the time we basically made her go, but when she came home, she announced that while we should not have made her do anything, it was the most gloriously wonderful thing she had ever done. She evolved in every way from that experience, from knowing other kids out like her. If there had been a TIP bumper sticker around at the time, even though I NEVER do bumper stickers, you bet I would have put one on the car to celebrate her joy.</p>
<p>I did not even know until this thread that there were such things as TIP magnets! We live in CTY land and discovered the program through a camp counselor who thought that the academic camp S was attending was not challenging enough (quite true). S found out later that some older schoolmates of his had attended CTY. But no one around here would dream of advertising that fact. In fact, I don’t recall S getting CTY banners/magnets/decals.</p>
<p>I can’t believe all you people crap up your cars with stickers in the first place. LOL.</p>
<p>Back in the day, my folks car had stickers from my undergrad and law school. I don’t put stickers on my car now, and I never did once I got my own car. BUT, should I stop wearing my National Honor Society pin? (Only kidding.)</p>
<p>I have the peel off window sticker for D’s school and I have two political bumper stickers. One for the governor running for election and one for our local rep - whose campaign I am chairing. You can’t run a campaign without having a bumper sticker!</p>
<p>Both of my kids were invited to TIP every year from the seventh grade on; neither ever wanted to participate. The academic rigor at the schools that both kids attended was such that sending them to an academic camp (despite the TIP offers) for the summer would have been overkill. In middle school they still needed the time to be kids and in HS they needed to unwind and most importantly recharge for the next school year. </p>
<p>In HS, DS did the one summer at an obligatory two week debate camp at Wake Forest before deciding to switch from debate to publications the next year which required only a 4 day seminar at the University of Kansas. The only thing he truly wanted to do was an NYLF for medicine which he did after sophomore year and which we coordinated with our college trip to NE/Ivy schools so it was an overall worthwhile venture.</p>
<p>Incidentally, both have turned out just fine; he’s finishing his second year of Med school and she’s about to graduate Magna Cum Laude and head off to law school in the fall…</p>
<p>If the hysteria is now starting in the seventh grade, CC will be an even more interesting place to observe in a few years…;)</p>
<p>My initial reaction to this is yeah I HATE it when I see those huge TIP magnets and have never put one on my car altho my kids have all been involved. BUT I’ve been reading thru some of the comments and thought, well, yeah it’s about time kids who excel in academics get the same recognition that the sports kids do (I recognize some kids excel in both). How many cars have you seen with a football helmet, or a cheerleader or baseball mitt with the kids name attached? (AS a side note I never understand THAT since I would never think its a good idea to publicly have my kids name on the outside of my car but I digress) Never mind the jackets, sweatshirts, etc that come along with all sports. Maybe if we did give the kids more positive affirmation about ‘being smart’ we’d all be better off!!</p>
<p>Actually, a lot of the parents on this thread have children who’ve graduated from college already.</p>
<p>Sssssshhhh. I’m still dreaming of the day when strangers think D and I ( either one) are sisters!</p>
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<p>When I moved into college and my parents and my new roommate’s parents met and exchanged pleasantries, my parents noticed that her mother was wearing her Phi Beta Kappa key around her neck. Really, let it go, LOL.</p>
<p>My son’s high school principal knew how to keep it all in perspective. My son’s senior year was a banner year for the school in terms of National Merit Semi-Finalists. We had never had so many students qualify. They decided to have an assembly to mark the big event.</p>
<p>The principal introduced the NMF kids. I assume he actually mentioned their names, but I don’t realy know as my son would have been horribly embarassed if I had been there to see it. When he finished the ceremony, the principal moved on to the next item by saying, “Now, what we’re all really here for…”</p>
<p>Next came the award for the cheerleaders placing at state competition!</p>
<p>When I said S1 was a TIP kid, I meant that he took the SAT in 7th gr. when “invited” to by the TIP program and then went to the State recognition thing with six other classmates because his m.s. made a big deal about it. He never actually took any of the classes at Duke. He was not interested and we were too poor.</p>
<p>Argh… H and I have both misplaced out Phi Beta Kappa keys. :(It never occurred to us to wear it around out necks.</p>
<p>This morning, on my way home from church, I saw something I had never seen before. It was a big, professionally-made banner congratulating someone for getting an 800 on the math portion of the SAT! I’ve seen graduation banners similar to this (and my daughter did not even want the attention from one of those), but I’ve never seen a banner proclaiming test scores. Wow.</p>
<p>^^^ IN what context? At the school? In someone’s yard?</p>
<p>This was in someone’s yard.</p>
<p>I think the Duke TIP summer programs are like the summer programs in the other Talent Search regions in having pretty good financial aid. There is a lot of available financial aid in most of those programs that people don’t ask for, because they think they are middle class (as they are, by most definitions of that term). If you think you can’t afford a program for your child, apply for financial aid and see what happens. You may be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>I just happened to see this thread when searching for something else.</p>
<p>My daughter was in the TIP program years ago and won an award, but she didn’t want to go to the ceremony. We were very proud of her, as we always have been of her accomplishments. I, for one, am guilty of singing to high heavens my children’s accomplishments because I feel they should be voiced. So many children do nothing but get in trouble these days and they are the squeaky wheel that gets the attention, not the high achieving children. What kind of message does this send to our youth? I did not display a sticker or magnet or what have you, but only because I didn’t know they had any, had they, I would have.</p>
<p>You can also believe that I’m trying my hardest to purchase a Wake Forest University School of Medicine T-shirt AND car license plate for the front of my car so I can display that because she was recently accepted. Bragging, not so much as am proud.</p>