If you're 'good' enough/identified a certain way as a kid, they'll bend over backwards to get you in things like that even if you're not well off. I wasn't from a well-off family, but test scores in the top 0.1% meant somehow there were scholarships to make camps and programs accessible once/if I expressed an interest. Whatever amount was required to make it affordable.
I'm a thoroughly useless adult, so it was a waste of money on their part, but it does happen. Or at least it used to.
I'm a thoroughly useless adult, so it was a waste of money on their part, but it does happen. Or at least it used to.