How to help bright kid identify interests?

jingle
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:21:41 +0000

My son, who just graduated from high school, got a lot out of CTY (Center for Talented Youth) summer programs. He attended for three years, in the process getting hooked on computer science, in which he now plans to major. We sent him for the social experience–the program is full of quirky kids like him–but his CTY background plus some high school AP has equipped him to take upper-level university computer science classes.

The entrance test is the SAT, but you don’t need a terribly high score to qualify.