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
Er, I meant ‘outcome’. Pffff
I was reading about one of these prodigy kids at my Alma mater, a top engineering school. It sounded like he had one specific mentor and other help to deal with it all.
When I was there there were 1 or 2 suicides a year. All of the kids at the school had been top students in high school, so getting a B or C was probably pretty stressful.
My old man would tell folks that asked about how I was doing and my grades he’d say “Well, mostly B’s and C’s - but that would be all A’s anywhere else!” (Later on I got a couple of D’s as well - but as we used to say “D is for Diploma!”)
Sometimes it doesn’t take pressure.
Sometimes all it takes is encouragement and support.
I think that this school is a target school for kids who want to go into the space program. Good for her. And babies play with Duplos which are the large version of Legos.
Look into the S. Korean national pre-college exam called Suneung.