Prodigy chooses HBCU over Harvard, Yale

[LazyBum201]

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<p>I’d feel far more comfortable handling a very young student over to the latter college than the former. In fact, I would not want to send my child to live in S1’s type of housing situation. But I would have felt comfortable handing S over to graduate students and faculty members who would be quite happy to pay extra attention to students who are different.</p>

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<p>And in our son’s case, someone suggested to me that we request our son’s room be near to the housemasters’ apartment. MIT must have taken that suggestion seriously as they placed our son in the room that was the last door before the housemasters’ apartment. Now in the new dorm, he’ll be on another level, but he’ll also be 17 at the time he moves in, so it really shouldn’t be a big deal.</p>

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<p>I actually feel that the students who are most vulnerable to being led astray are not the very young–they are simply not interested-- but those who are closer in age to the regular college students because they think they can and want to emulate them. I don’t have stats to back me up, just a hunch.</p>

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<p>I have the same hunch, though certainly <em>some</em> early to college students <em>do</em> fall into bad trouble (like the U of Alabama gal).</p>

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<p>I believe that the Transition Program at UW only accepts 13+. know someone whose parents felt he was not ready for college at 13. They made him wait until he was 15. But by then, he had learned so much more that he zipped through U of Chicago in two years. To this day, he regrets not having spent all four years at the U (and he is in his 70s!).</p>

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<p>And our son isn’t zipping through college or graduate school at a faster than normal rate (well, for a master’s in general anyway; his master’s for <em>his particular lab</em> was faster than it had ever been done before, but was the standard two years in June graduation but for some reason, he was the first to pull off what is expected there; in the larger lab he’s in that the smaller lab falls under, 3 of the 29 scheduled to graduate in June managed to do so, so the two-year master’s in his lab is somewhat a misnomer). And all total, he’ll have had as many or more years in college/grad school than most people, especially if he also opts to do an MBA and/or JD after his doctorate, though if he did either of those right after the Ph.D., he might still be young compared to his classmates, but at least the regular age for college students (as he will be come fall, really).</p>