Is It Possible to Have Too Much Math?

collegealum314
Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:16:44 +0000

But as a direct answer, no, I don’t think it will hurt him if he has taken college courses before he applies to a university as long as he hasn’t officially, or unofficially, graduated high school. A lot of students take courses at their local universities along with their high school classes for a variety of reasons



No, it won’t hurt the OP’s son. I know one MIT undergrad in the mid-2000s who was a repeat Putnam fellow (the major college math competition) had taken 4 years of classes at U. of Wisconsin-Madison. Just don’t enroll in a degree program.

Don’t hold him back for this or whatever reason you may think of that colleges may not like it, even if it were true.