[MuZI]

Found this on /.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...091901779.html

 

[saint.panda]

Very impressive. Friends of mine went to UVA and it's definetely not an easy school.

But still, one should try to (reasonably) prolonge university life, not shorten it.

 

[JahJahBinks]

cool kid!

 

[nibiyabi]

I plan on making college the best six years of my life . . . OK, my parents would kill me, especially at this tuition.

But it sure would be fun.

 

[MrSlacker]

I think he has no life.

 

[JahJahBinks]

no he did at some point.

"His first semester, he took 23 credits and found he had more time than he did in high school to spend with friends, playing games (video games or board games, he clarified, not drinking games). Or just hanging out."

 

[MuZI]

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Originally Posted by JahJahBinks no he did at some point. "His first semester, he took 23 credits and found he had more time than he did in high school to spend with friends, playing games (video games or board games, he clarified, not drinking games). Or just hanging out."

23 units... my god.

I don't think I could manage those!

I'm taking only 14 right now.

 

[VR6ofpain]

I think a better title would have been, "Teen completes 60 units at UVA in one year". From the title they used I was wondering how it was possible to complete ~120 units in 2 semesters. I can see 23 being do-able, depending on the courses he took. I took 19 units one semester when in school and I still had free time. Now 37 is completely ridiculous, but a professor of mine one told me about a student they had who was working 40 hours a week and took 21 units, so some people really have drive.

 

[JahJahBinks]

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Originally Posted by MuZI 23 units... my god. I don't think I could manage those! I'm taking only 14 right now.

How many credits per each course?

In the college I graduated from, taking more credits would need your advisor's approval plus you have to pay more money since your tuition only covers so many credits. But taking signficantly more credits means you gotta have something to prove yourself.

 

[J-Pak]

I believe my friend knows someone that graduated from UBC (British Columbia) at 17, and got into medicine at the same university at 18.

 

[Beach123456]

Its official.........this guy has gone beyond having no life to having negative life. The area around him is actually wilting away from the lack of life.

 

[JahJahBinks]

Here's a genius guy:

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~edemaine/

He went to college at age of 12. Got his Ph.D and became the youngest professor at MIT at age of 20. His name is well-known in the field of computer science. He is 25 years old now, which is still younger than many of his Ph.D candidates. lol. Look at all the co-authors and papers of his.

 

[nabwong]

I had a friend who's like that too. He did 2 years of undergrad at MIT in engineering and then 2 years more to get a PHD in economics also at MIT. He's also in the debate team and ran the boston marathon...crazy dude. Nice guy.

 

[Teerawit]

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Originally Posted by J-Pak I believe my friend knows someone that graduated from UBC (British Columbia) at 17, and got into medicine at the same university at 18.

How about this guy from the US, who got into college at 9, graduated in 3 years, and entered the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago at age 12:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/08...wonder.kid.ap/

1500 SAT, 37 MCAT, IQ 200+. yeah....

I mean geez, UChic? That's like the hardest school in the US, and their medical school makes no exception.

 

[J-Pak]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teerawit How about this guy from the US, who got into college at 9, graduated in 3 years, and entered the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago at age 12: http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/08...wonder.kid.ap/ 1500 SAT, 37 MCAT, IQ 200+. yeah.... I mean geez, UChic? That's like the hardest school in the US, and their medical school makes no exception.

That is amazing!

Still other than his IQ those board scores aren't phenomenally exceptional to enter medicine at 12!!