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On the other hand, it might be pretty harmless to include it, since most admissions officers will never have heard of the program. The only possible danger would be if they looked it up, or asked about it during an interview.


I have to strongly disagree about this. I genuinely do not think that admissions staff at top colleges are going to be put off in some way by the DYS label. A high IQ is NOT a factor that will be held against a student in admissions. I can't image that it would be a "danger" for them to look it up. Of course, that alone will not get a student into college (my D will also very likely be a National Merit Scholar, for example, and has good grades and tons of extra curricular accomplishments). But I honestly would not dream of leaving it off. D's high school counselor completely agrees with this, by the way (and she used to be an admissions counselor at a top 20 LAC).