Originally Posted by Grif
Our DS, now 12, has done both kinds of summer programs through CTY (day program at 9 and 10 and residential at 11), and loved them all. [...] the experience this past summer also really increased his desire to be accelerated.
Was he the same age as the others in his grade? Assuming he gets accelerated in school (and that this means a grade skip) would he mind being the youngest -- by a year or more -- in the residential program?

Our son just completed his 2nd skip and is planning to attend a CTY residential this summer as a 5th grader... but in a 3rd grader's body.

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