18 year old student graduates with his bachelors in one year!

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
not everyone needs to hung over, dunked in a vat of something, nor does he need to spend 20000-40000 a year.

Pretty sure they don't give you a bulk discount on credit hours. He paid the same as everyone else (minus fees each semester of course).

 

[Mellman]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
not everyone needs to hung over, dunked in a vat of something, nor does he need to spend 20000-40000 a year.

Pretty sure they don't give you a bulk discount on credit hours. He paid the same as everyone else (minus fees each semester of course).

Don't know about UVA, but standard tuition at my college (in va) was for 15-18 credit hours...you pay more per class you want to take, i dont know the exact rate...but it did cost additional if you wanted to take more than 18 credits/semester

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
He'll never get laid.

He'll have his doctorate by the time most finish regular college. He will get laid a lot by his trophy wife/supermodel girlfriend. Delayed gratification....

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I don't understand how he did this without taking prerequsite classes concurrently.... Even if you were maxed out every semester, you still would need 4-5 semesters to graduate from the school I just graduated from to do the prereq's in order....

Even without AP's and such you can do a Bachelors in about 2 years pretty easily if you really try. After 30 months I'm only one class short, and I took a couple semesters of normal/low credit loads.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: Mellman
yes he's azn....and he went to TJ, where about 25% of those kids goto UVA, (local to both, have several friends who did that track) Its VERY easy to get college credits at a school like TJ, unlike my HS where not too many classes offered college credits.

This kid totally missed the point of college...growing up and maturing. His loss...oh well.

Tell me how this is different than those people who go to college for four years and spend 100% of their out-of-class time penned up in their dorm room?

Its different - because he saved $30-40K by not going to school for the additional 3 years...

This kid could be very bright (socially) but personally I had so much fun at school, i'd go back in a heartbeat, I could have graduated early if I wanted to - but i wanted to take a few extra classes etc...

No, how are you maturing if all you do is play WoW in your room and go to class?

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
not everyone needs to hung over, dunked in a vat of something, nor does he need to spend 20000-40000 a year.

Pretty sure they don't give you a bulk discount on credit hours. He paid the same as everyone else (minus fees each semester of course).

But you generally have a range of credits included in tuition, say up to 18 credits or so. I'm not sure about other schools but the places I've been it's cheaper to pay for over credits than to pay full tuition again.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: Golgatha

Originally posted by: tfinch2
He'll never get laid.

He'll have his doctorate by the time most finish regular college. He will get laid a lot by his trophy wife/supermodel girlfriend. Delayed gratification....

I doubt that. I've never seen a picture of Stephen Hawking with some bombshell woman pushing him around.

 

[Chaotic42]

Man, I wish I could have done that. Stupid work.

Good job, guy.

 

[Mellman]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: Mellman
yes he's azn....and he went to TJ, where about 25% of those kids goto UVA, (local to both, have several friends who did that track) Its VERY easy to get college credits at a school like TJ, unlike my HS where not too many classes offered college credits.

This kid totally missed the point of college...growing up and maturing. His loss...oh well.

Tell me how this is different than those people who go to college for four years and spend 100% of their out-of-class time penned up in their dorm room?

Its different - because he saved $30-40K by not going to school for the additional 3 years...

This kid could be very bright (socially) but personally I had so much fun at school, i'd go back in a heartbeat, I could have graduated early if I wanted to - but i wanted to take a few extra classes etc...

No, how are you maturing if all you do is play WoW in your room and go to class?

who are you arguing with???

 

[Kaieye]

Don't most of us only use about two percent of our brain capacity? Anyways, why is it that before I clicked the link to the news article, I had a feeling that this person was asian?

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
You know, there are many different perspectives on what college is about. None of them are right, except for the people who agree with them. College can be a way to get a better job, can be purely about education, can be about partying, can be about social acclimation, or any number of other things. I say props to him for knowing what it was to him.

Also, having taken 30 credits in a semester myself, way to go on something that is ridiculously freaking hard to do. :thumbsup:

I graduated in 30 months. No big deal. Show me a bachelor's degree you can get with 70 of your 120+ credits being a random assortment of 100 level classes. It's not like you can AP Physics III, Linear Algebra... or DifEq This guy had to have gotten a degree in basket weaving if he actually used 70 credits of AP. I transferred in 20~ and that was about the maximum I would have been able to use anyway.

 

[txrandom]

Yah, I don't know how this guy got 70 hours of credit for his degree from high school. I came in with around 40, but only half of them actually go to my degree. I got random classes like linear algebra, trignometry, european history and other stuff that doesn't matter.

 

[reverend boltron]

Originally posted by: Umberger
LOL, I recognize that kid. He was a freshman when I was a senior.

I went to Jefferson, and honestly, I don't see how the HELL he graduated with all that AP credit.

I graduated with 22 college credits and I took about half of the AP classes that were offered. Plus, it's not like all of the AP exams were in useful subjects... sure, I could have taken AP English Language, AND AP English Lit, etc... but what's the point? Most of those credits will overlap and be useless anyway. That kid is a nerd.

fixed. jk

 

[Mellman]

the double major was in physics and math IIRC...still crazy...he was on the news last night (he's local) and was saying "it really wasnt that hard, i just applied myself and it all just happened, its not hard really, im not a genius or anything I just worked hard."

 

[mugs]

What major has so few dependant classes that you can can get it in a year + AP credits?

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: Mellman
yes he's azn....and he went to TJ, where about 25% of those kids goto UVA, (local to both, have several friends who did that track) Its VERY easy to get college credits at a school like TJ, unlike my HS where not too many classes offered college credits.

This kid totally missed the point of college...growing up and maturing. His loss...oh well.

Tell me how this is different than those people who go to college for four years and spend 100% of their out-of-class time penned up in their dorm room?

Its different - because he saved $30-40K by not going to school for the additional 3 years...

This kid could be very bright (socially) but personally I had so much fun at school, i'd go back in a heartbeat, I could have graduated early if I wanted to - but i wanted to take a few extra classes etc...

No, how are you maturing if all you do is play WoW in your room and go to class?

who are you arguing with???

You said he missed 'the point' of college by taking an extreme fast-track, but how is he any different than the kids I just described?

 

[ArchCenturion]

Just some little Asian kid, I don't know why anybody would want to have to sit thru that many math and physics classes. It seems quite possible, just not that easy.

Maybe I didn't read this quite right, but he also learned to play bridge?? WTF is that about, big deal.

 

[Geocentricity]

Degree in math/science, doing grad for math, wants to work at the patent office.... I don't want to be stereotypical, but the phrase "social recluse" rings quite loudly

 

[randomlinh]

and he plays bridge. what is it w/ bridge and smart people? I knew someone in HS who knew nothing about programing, took one year in HS, and after a year in college, was TA'ing CS courses. apparently he's an avid bridge player

 

[interchange]

That rigor is sort of like what they put you through in med school. It's really not an impossible accomplishment, you just have to apply yourself a lot and get a lot of help from the department. He probably AP'd out of his labs and classes with writing requirements. I totally see this as doable. Insane but not unbelievable.

 

[BrownTown]

bah, this isnt nearly as impressive as that guy who graduated from MIT in 1 semester with NO AP credits or anything like that. And they actually went for 4 years, spent the first 3.5 years doing only research, then took every single class they needed in one semester to graduate. Thats like 30 CLASSES in 1 semester, not just 37 hours. Apparently they just did none of the homework for any of their classes since that would take to long and only studied for the tests.

EDIT: yeah, I had enough AP credit to graduate in 2 years if id worked my ass off, but why in gods name would any fool want to do that?, im just lazing my ass around here for as long as I can, I sure as hell dont want to enter the workforce any sooner than I have too.

 

[z0mb13]

Smart people like him probably don't care whether he has a social life or not. He probably thinks he is wasting his time if he does socialize, since the other people are dumbasses by his standards.

His mentality/way of thinking is probably closer to a 30 year old than a typical 20 yo.

 

[Philippine Mango]

It's not such a bad idea, that kid either has two things that he can do, he can either stay in college and chill for 3 additional years, get a masters, then get PHD (he'd be the yongest kid with PHD) or he can get a job and start working.

 

[BrownTown]

On another note, I object to calling people like this "smart", while I'm sure he is likely very intellegent what this takes is an incredable work ethic in order to spend all day working and never having any fun.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
It's not such a bad idea, that kid either has two things that he can do, he can either stay in college and chill for 3 additional years, get a masters, then get PHD (he'd be the yongest kid with PHD) or he can get a job and start working.

He's got an impressive accomplishment that might be able to land him a job, but he has no experience, and I doubt he has any communication skills.