Boy, 11, admitted to college to study quantum physics

[DubaiSis]

I have a nephew who is kind of a smartypants in math. He started having anxiety attacks in school in junior high and they figured out it was because he was SOOOOO bored. He stayed in regular school but commuted to Iowa City to take college math classes, even advanced math classes. Apparently one of his professors was pretty pissy pants about it, but hey, if he can keep up what are they gonna say? He is currently being paid to attend college.

In his case, he really just got by in the social aspects of high school, but in college he really came into his own. Going to a kind of a pinhead school, he found his peeps. This is a PERFECT example of finding a college that is the right fit for you. He REALLY wanted to go to Cal Tech (because people WANT to be Sheldon Cooper when they grow up), but they turned him down. It would not have been a good fit. Even for smartypants, I think it's very SoCal. East was a better choice than West, and there's nothing comparable in the Midwest that is not a huge school, which also wouldn't have worked.

[aephi alum]

That's the youngest I've ever heard of someone being admitted to college.

When I was in high school, there was a student who was a freshman at age 11 and a junior at age 12. He started college at NYU at age 13. His parents got an apartment near campus so that he could live with them instead of living in the dorms or commuting from Long Island.

The kid was brilliant. He was in my AP Computer Science class during his junior year, and boy could he code. He was also taking AP Calculus B/C and an AP science class (it was either bio or chem - I took AP physics and he wasn't in my class).

Unfortunately for him, he didn't get to do any of the fun senior-year things such as attending prom or walking out on Senior Cut Day or walking at graduation.