<p>@coco2018, not necessarily. I know someone who graduated at age 17 then completed a PhD at age 21, both at top schools many people on this site are swooning over. I’m not a big fan of rushing through in such a hurry (this person eventually abandoned the field of study in favor of something completely different). I especially wouldn’t rush through college in a year like the young man in the article did. Wondering how well those B’s served him when he applied to law school, and what law schools might have thought about a college transcript that was half AP classes. APs in our school are very weak in the writing department compared to college courses and he probably really shortchanged himself. Also, he wasn’t going to be able to attend law school straight out of college because he had no college transcript to show on applications his first year, just a bunch of AP classes. Hence the masters, I assume. So he could as well have done the undergrad program over two years and enjoyed his time in college better.</p>
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