How do those crazy smart kids go to University early?
February 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Unfortunatly, my sister is one of those crazy smart kids who learn algebra and physics at age 11. How does she go to University early? My parents won’t discuss it in front of me because ‘I will feel stupid’
I don’t know exactly what you mean by early. If you mean, how do they get accepted months before admissions have been sent, thats because they received early admission based on their extremely awesome grades. If you mean skip parts of high school, I personally have not heard of that but im assuming that would also be just due to the kid not being challenged in highschool. Also, I know in my case I took grade 10and 11 science in the same course -so there are always shortcuts to graduating.
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If a kid truly is that smart, it’s not hard for them to skip high school and go to a college instead. It happens, just not all that often. There was a girl in the news last year who finished a PhD in physics at 18. She was offered a job on the faculty of a university in South Korea. They stressed that they were not hiring her based on the merits of her work, but for novelty based on her age. Even though she was smart enough to finish at 18 what I haven’t managed to finish quite yet at 29, her actual research wasn’t all that impressive. Very smart, but maybe not creative enough.
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I don’t know exactly what you mean by early. If you mean, how do they get accepted months before admissions have been sent, thats because they received early admission based on their extremely awesome grades. If you mean skip parts of high school, I personally have not heard of that but im assuming that would also be just due to the kid not being challenged in highschool. Also, I know in my case I took grade 10and 11 science in the same course -so there are always shortcuts to graduating.
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i don’t know bt my friend is really smart and has a scolership for her A+ maybe that’s how
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If we had figured out the system sooner in California, my daughter would have started college just after turning 16. As it is, she was just barely 17.
Colleges do not care about your age, only that you have the necessary credits in the necessary fields.
My daughter was too ill for regular high school and did independent study. I remember her polishing off an entire semester of American history on a 40 hour train ride from Albuquerque to Los Angeles.
If we had found out about the "CHSPE" exam a year earlier, where you can write the exam and it you pass it, you immediately graduate high school, she would already be a year into her PhD now at age 22 instead of just finishing graduate school now.
These kids write "challenge" exams where they study the information themselves then write an exam to challenge the course. If they pass the exam they get full credit without taking the course.
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