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<p>Uh, yes we do. There’s a news story about it. These kids are grown up now.</p>
<p>[How</a> the Harding family sent six kids to university by the age of 12 | News.com.au](<a href=“http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/how-the-harding-family-sent-six-kids-to-university-by-the-age-of-12/story-fngqim8m-1226624219877]How”>http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/how-the-harding-family-sent-six-kids-to-university-by-the-age-of-12/story-fngqim8m-1226624219877)</p>
<p>They may be a very religious family, but they seemed to have fostered their children’s love of learning by allowing them to really dig deeply into the things that they loved and explore things expansively. They don’t live in the dorms; they live at home, and they play with kids their own age.</p>
<p>The oldest went to Auburn University Montgomery, the Montgomery campus of Auburn. She majored in mechanical engineering and is an engineer now. The second went to the California College of the Arts, and works as an architect. The third one went to Huntingdon College and then med school; she’s a Navy physician now. The fourth one just finished a BA in English at Huntingdon and is now doing an MS in computer science. Two of their children are currently in college now at Faulkner University. The latter two colleges are religiously affiliated, but they’re not bad colleges or diploma mills, just not famous. The truth is, most students across the country (whether they are 12 or 18 when they go to school) don’t go to Harvards and Yales; they go to places like Huntingdon or AUM.</p>
<p>And what’s wrong with moving to a house near your parents? The oldest girl is 24 years old now. I’m 26 years old and if I could move into a home near my parents, I totally would. I love my hometown and I’d love to have my children be close to their grandparents.</p>
<p>2collegewego, why should we care whether or not she was accepted to an MD program or a DO program? DOs practice the same medicine as MDs; they’re licensed the same and go to the same residencies. A lot of times, you don’t even realize that you have a DO as opposed to an MD. My favorite doctor was a DO. I mean if you want to go into academic medicine or be a famous surgeon an MD is probably best, but if you just want to do family practice, there’s nothing wrong with a DO.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that sending kids to college at 12 years old is a good idea, but it seems to have worked out for these children. All the ones who have graduated are gainfully employed and seem to be doing well for themselves. Architecture is a field with a high unemployment rate and their architect daughter is even gainfully employed, so I’m assuming that these weren’t kids who had no idea what they were doing and just stumbling through classes. Med school in the U.S. is competitive anywhere you go.</p>