Welp, she seems to have all the prerequisites
I can’t imagine the parental pressure on kids like that. Can’t help to think about an alternate income: “12 year old prodigy fails to gain admission to elite college - blows her brains out six months later...”
The truly scary part is such a story is not all that far-fetched... X.x
“Her passion for building started as an infant with LEGOs.”
That’s a lot of hurt feet for mom and dad.
I’m pretty sure the Sun Devils are the number one party school. What “genius” goes there?
MIT, Georgia Tech, or Perdue would be better.
Well, I’m hoping she at least stays the course in studying the hard sciences. If she wants to design and build rovers to explore the solar system, I’m all for it.
Elon Musk is hiring. Screw NASA.
Smart kid—knows better than to better than to be the poor astronaut they send to Mars.
She should live long and prosper.
Is it a good idea to send a 12 year old to college? I mean from a socialization, social maturity, etc. point of view?
Amazing accomplishment for 12. I wish her well.
Let's see what her SAT scores look like. Oh wait...they're "racist" now! Never mind. Off to NASA.
Good for her, and good for her parents. They’re raising a child who expects to achieve and expects to study hard for it. That’s a characteristic that’s become more Chinese and Indian than American in 2021.
I hired a 14 year old College Freshman for summer work and it was delightful to have him in the office. He ended up going to Carnegie Melon to get his PhD at the same time my own son was getting his 2 Bachelors and a Masters degrees so we got to see both of them at the graduation ceremony.
She looks like she’s “woke”.
So woke that she never sleeps.
What a waste!
NASA will have a Muslim outreach position in Dubai for her.
It will be in line with lifting Muslim horizons.
I wish her well. A deciding factor in how they end up is whether the child thinks their parents would still love them even if they didn’t get an “A”.
Sheer and perpetual panic can motivate a child to do amazing things in the present tense. Eventually, that existential panic cloud is often replaced with resentment or cynicism.
Heck,at her age I was living for my skate board and still climbing trees. What’s wrong with kids these days anywho?
Stories about these prodigies come along every so often, and then you never hear about them again. It would be interesting to know what the usual trajectory is for them.
“...Her goal is to build rovers like the one sent to Mars in the Perseverance mission....”
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Then she should plan on studying engineering instead of chemistry. This aspiration and her planned studies tells me she really doesn’t understand how things get done in the real world.
Sort of oxymoronic.
I can’t believe how many people here have posted negative comments. This is a story to be celebrated. She was homeschooled.