<p>Welcome to the forum, Nevermore; your post was very interesting. Yes, I can relate to young people who want to go beyond the meager challenge of the local high school at as early an age as possible. My family is lucky, in our town, to have a gifted homeschooling support group with parents who have been quite ingenious about building academic programs outside the school system. It is through that group that I became a math team coach–even though I was a language major in college. Now that my oldest son’s math ability is well beyond mine, we have to scramble to find him advanced learning opportunities, but there are plenty of those for pre-college students in math. We are pretty satisfied with [EPGY</a> Online High School](<a href=“http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/]EPGY”>http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/), a brand-new program, so far, and I think that will help us let our children grow physically and in life experience before they submit applications to colleges with suitably challenging programs (and forbiddingly low acceptance rates). </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you looking for more academic challenge. There is plenty of preparation to do in the teen years before attempting to apply to Harvard.</p>