Originally Posted by FOsteology
Is anyone on the 'fire familiar with the TAMS program (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science) at the University of North Texas?

It's a two-year residential early college entrance program for High School Sophomores. Junior and Senior year is spent taking college courses (predominately math, science) and upon completion earn their HS diploma and a two years of college credit.

My youngest son is a Freshman in HS, and he's considering applying next year.


I live in Denton and my kids have friends that went into the program. It is tough and intense. Needless to say, the kids in the program are extremely bright. The program by all the feed back we have gotten certainly prepares them academically for just about anything along those lines, but they pretty much loose their "high school experience."

Not saying that is a bad thing for some folks, but I have seen the kids that are in the program. They are already intelligent, but they go in with few social skills and graduate losing what little they had in the first place.