<p>No one is impressed with SAT or AP schools at a young age. First of all, the tests do not reflect intelligence but knowledge, and learning alegebra for the first time is the same difficulty at age 6 as it is at age 60, provided one knows multiplication, etc. Skipping high school may seem impressive to morons, but in all honesty its just a sign of being committed to hitting the books. Advice: go to high school, get a goddam date, and leave ur house once in a while. If you skip hs, u may get a degree from Yale but u’ll be socially ■■■■■■■■ and a nutty f**kup who’ll be more confused about life and human interaction than the janitor who didn’t finish high school. No pun intended.</p>
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im not sure i agree with that… although i dont recommend skipping 4 years of hs, its not like what goBears is saying. learning algebra at 6 IS different… VERY VERY different… from learning algebra at 60. at 6, your brain is not totally developed, and its harder to understand/grasph some concepts. i think an average person finishes brain developement by 21 or something. at 60, your brain would be slow. at 6, your brain is unripe. why a person should not skip 4 grades… same reason.
i took kumon in 7th grade… and when i saw logs, i got really big headaches thinking they were soo hard. so i stopped doing it. but when i formally had it in algebra ii class in 10th grade… even though i had no clue was logs were or anything cuz they didnt teach algebra in windsor ON at least not in my school… it was a piece of cake to understand. i just realize lots of times that some things become incredibly easy to understand once u become older.</p>
<p>sort of like… in wellesley for philosophy class… all freshmens have to take 101 if they want to take 20something… but sophmores+ can go directly to 200+… i think its because they’re thinkings are “mature” enough to understand, generally speaking. of course… dont argue for individual cases.</p>
<p>haha i cant believe you still post here :D</p>
<p>but what I THINK is that learning at 6 is about as difficult as leraning at 60. he11, i already know im gonna be so ■■■■■■■■ at age 60… :]</p>
<p>wow… high school is the best of all things. the amount of cool stuff that goes on can’t be beat.</p>
<p>haha i pressed “most replies” and this showed up and i never read it and it was interesting and i got a kick out of laughing at it then i posted. you’re “gonna be so ■■■■■■■■ at age 60”… i’m already sorta ■■■■■■■■… and im only 18 :(</p>
<p>My sister actually attended school witha child prodigy…Cho! He was 9 yrs old taking molecular genetics! He’s now at the U of C MD/PhD prog and IS Doogie Howser reincarnated.</p>
<p>“Advice: go to high school, get a goddam date, and leave ur house once in a while. If you skip hs, u may get a degree from Yale but u’ll be socially ■■■■■■■■ and a nutty f**kup who’ll be more confused about life and human interaction than the janitor who didn’t finish high school. No pun intended.”</p>
<p>Not true. you can skip high school and still socially interact at an adequate level.</p>
<p>However, I’d advise against it, simply because High School is FUN. If you’re that smart, you basically will get four years to have a blast. Make the most of it. Also, I don’t know what the precedent is for Ivies to accept child prodigies (at least in modern times).</p>