The Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies program, previously known as the Education Program for Gifted Youth, is a gifted education program at Stanford University which offers distance and residential summer courses for students of all ages. It is a distance learning program, meaning that courses are taught remotely via the Internet, rather than in the traditional classroom setting. Courses target students from elementary school up to advanced college graduate. Subjects offered include: Mathematics, English, Humanities, Physics, and Computer Science. EPGY is similar to the Center for Talented Youth at the Johns Hopkins University in terms of certain objectives.
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