Back when Lady Gaga was just a girl from New York named Stefani Germanotta, she might have been seen as a geek.
Just as a select group of gifted kids do today, she spent three weeks of summer in an intense learning program that offered classes on everything from math to robots to monsters.
Gaga, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sergey Brin are all alumni of the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University. CYT and the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) are two of the most well-known highly selective programs that have given rise to high-achieving adults.
Next thing you know we're gonna be finding out what age she got her first period. Sis needs some space to let her childhood/teenage years just breathe and be their own time.
Next thing you know we're gonna be finding out what age she got her first period. Sis needs some space to let her childhood/teenage years just breathe and be their own time.
Are we that surprised? You need an SAT score of 1890 to get into NYU. And I honestly don't think her instrumental and vocal prowess was honed enough at the time for her to get an early admission into Tisch.
CTY's Talent Search recruits highly-able elementary and middle school students (who have scored at or above the 95th percentile on in-grade standardized tests) to qualify for CTY's academic programs.[3] Applicants then take a standardized test that is above their grade level, beyond the ability of most children their age.
a 7th grade student must score at roughly the 50th percentile achieved by graduating high school seniors.
gifted students in grades 7 to 11 who are in the top 2% of their age group.
