As a gifted student who got a scholarship to one of these schools when I was younger, I would suggest looking at the curriculums and being very careful. I worked about as hard in the CP school as I did in public, which is to say almost none at all. The courses were somewhat more enriching. Toughness was based on amount of homework and on strict adherence to their curriculums. This was a cp rated very highly in my State. Granted, I got into a really good university, but I was still completely unprepared with the study skills I needed to succeed there.
