Application Updates
2025/2026 applications will open early 2025.
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Sunday, February 23
1–2:30 p.m.
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2025-2026 Program Guide available Jan. 2025
What Is GATE?
Gifted and Talented Education at MSU offers educational experiences tailored to gifted students and their families.
GATE's academic year programs offer students an opportunity to take math, literature, and select foreign language courses at the high school level beginning in middle school. These twice-accelerated programs allow students to complete their high school curriculum requirements in half the time*, allowing them to take AP or dual enrollment courses, or to pursue other educational endeavors in their high school years. Students may apply beginning in the spring of their sixth grade year.
GATE's summer programs offer an opportunity to participate in programming unique to gifted students in facilities not available to the general public. Experts in their field provide an array of hands-on, advanced learning opportunities for students beginning in third grade.
*Japanese language course is three years.
Am I Gifted?
That's a great question! Click on our Testing tab to learn more about testing options available to you.
Video Resources
GATE Overview Video
Our Progams
Click on a tab to learn more about each program
For keyboard navigation, use the tab key to highlight the first program, then use the left or right arrows keys to move through the tabs.
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- CHAMP
Cooperative Highly Accelerated Mathematics Program
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- ISHALL
Intensive Studies in Humanities, Arts, Language and Literature
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- ALL
Amo Linguam Latinam (I Love Latin!)
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- MANGA
Michigan's Accelerated NihonGo for Americans
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- GUPPY
Gifted University for Parents and Precocious Youth
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- IS4GT
Intensive Studies for Gifted and Talented
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- MST
Math, Science, and Technology (MST@MSU)
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- MSTL
Math, Science, Technology, and Leadership
About Gifted and Talented Education
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) is a division of University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. The GATE office is dedicated to promoting differentiated educational programs for students in middle school and high school. The mission of the Gifted and Talented Education office is to provide educational experiences that allow gifted students to develop intellectually, to cultivate social relationships, and to expand their understanding of the world.