There are a lot of pretty ignorant or completely disrespectful comments here.
It seems everyone's emotions hit the roof when their intellectual capacity is challenged in some way by someone else.
Take it easy on the guy. It's not like he's all that unique - there are plenty of prodigies out there and people that have done more extreme things than this. An Indian boy named Akrit went to medical school at about the same age as this kid. Michael Kearney had a masters degree in biochemistry by 14.
Kim Ung Yong was doing calculus by age 4 (
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/818...503822ewm9.jpg). This son of a bitch had a Ph.D in physics by 14.
I'm all for something like this if the person has the capacity and it's what they really want to do. A lot of prodigies turn out great and achieve great things in their life time. I think people need to stop hating on many of the people that end up being the ones that lead to discoveries that change all of our lives for the better.
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Can someone clue me in to how someone of his age can even get a degree from a university? How the **** did he get admitted with only 5th grade under his belt?
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Why did I have to go through highschool if I could've gone to a university at the age of 11?
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It's called skipping grades.
And if people like Michael Kearney or Kim Ung Yong are any indication of the kinds of people that end up skipping 10+ grades, you probably didn't have a ratio IQ of 200-300 when you were little, hence high school. I suppose you could have simply been unidentified and in that case you wasted your time in high school. 8)
Realistically, holding back kids that are mentally beyond their peers (By their own free will - when the parents are forcing the child to do this it's a different issue) can have worse effects on the child than skipping them ahead, so many of the comments about him 'missing out on life' aren't exactly good arguments against this. Someone like Michael, when tested at the age of 4, was already performing at a grade 8 level. What would you achieve by holding him back? I'm sure most high school students in this thread wouldn't want to be sent back to grade 3.
Good things can come of prodigies - see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathagat_Avatar_Tulsi
or
http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/20...als_smith.html
Full list -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies