16 year old graduating college, headed to Harvard for PhD

cobrat
Wed, 01 May 2013 11:01:41 +0000

Kids develop at extremely varied rates.

One college friend GRADUATED WITH HONORS from my LAC only a year older at 17 than the student in the OP story. From chatting with him and others who started college as young as 13, they’d have been absolutely miserable if they had parents holding them back academically for the sake of their perceptions of a “childhood” or for “social factors”.

Incidentally, said friend is now a well-adjusted young adult on the tenure track at a well-known North American university.