Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
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Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#2It would be interested to check in with him at 35 to see where he ended up compared to other 'normal' 35 year old MIT grads. Basically does pushing your kid like that from such and early age lead to any significant long term advantages.
Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#3It would be interested to check in with him at 35 to see where he ended up compared to other 'normal' 35 year old MIT grads. Basically does pushing your kid like that from such and early age lead to any significant long term advantages.
>pushing your kid like that
I dunno about this... we're not intimate with his family so it seems a little unfair to characterize his parents as "pushing him". For all we know, the opposite may have happened and his parents were "holding him back" and trying to prevent a precocious teen from rushing into MIT at age 14 instead of 15.
As far as the article's text reveals, it says his parents were responsive and not pushy: "Rungta is grateful to his parents and to MIT for being responsive to his needs every step of the way."
Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
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Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#5It would be interested to check in with him at 35 to see where he ended up compared to other 'normal' 35 year old MIT grads. Basically does pushing your kid like that from such and early age lead to any significant long term advantages.
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Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#6As long as he did not exclusively learn technical stuff but also got a humanistic education, which we do not know, and enjoyed his childhood, which I think he did, because you cannot perform like that without enjoying it, I think this is pretty amazing parenting.
You could find other reasons to nitpick (Did he do sports? Did he develop social competences by interacting with other kids?), but even if these things are true, which we do not know, there are children, who got a regular education, that are still lacking in these regards and they are not enrolled at MIT at 15.
Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#7It would be interested to check in with him at 35 to see where he ended up compared to other 'normal' 35 year old MIT grads. Basically does pushing your kid like that from such and early age lead to any significant long term advantages.
Considering the average age of MIT freshman students is 18 years, he'll be starting with other teenagers. I hope that the 3 years difference will not prevent him from having a meaningful social life there. I think that branding him as a "child prodigy" just because he is one will help much. Instead I would like to see news like "Young MIT student has solved such and such hard problem for all mankind".
Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#8It would be interested to check in with him at 35 to see where he ended up compared to other 'normal' 35 year old MIT grads. Basically does pushing your kid like that from such and early age lead to any significant long term advantages.
>pushing your kid like that I dunno about this... we're not intimate with his family so it seems a little unfair to characterize his parents as "pushing him". For all we know, the opposite may have happened and his parents were "holding him back" and trying to prevent a precocious teen from rushing into MIT at age 14 instead of 15. As far as the article's text reveals, it says his parents were responsive and not push…
I think that scenario is unlikely given the fact that they started the MIT preparation at 5.
Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#9I don't know man, I think there's something to be said about having a childhood. Being from India myself, I know the tremendous pressure parents put on kids to succeed. I hope that this kid wasn't subject to the same.
Re: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
#10As long as he did not exclusively learn technical stuff but also got a humanistic education, which we do not know, and enjoyed his childhood, which I think he did, because you cannot perform like that without enjoying it, I think this is pretty amazing parenting. You could find other reasons to nitpick (Did he do sports? Did he develop social competences by interacting with other kids?), but even if these things are…
> Did he do sports? Did he develop social competences by interacting with other kids?
Completely agree with you. He has the rest of his life to get better at those areas