Posted on 04/28/2021 10:55:17 AM PDT by lowbridge
A 12-year-old in North Carolina used the downtime he had during the pandemic to take on a few extra classes in school.
Now, one year later, Mike Wimmer, of Salisbury, is getting ready to graduate high school and college -- in the same week.
Wimmer completed four years of school in one year -- two years of high school and a two-year associate's degree. He will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21, and from Concord Academy High School on May 28, where he is valedictorian.
But this wasn't always Wimmer's plan, he said.
The student was taking dual enrollment classes and realized that at the pace he was going, he just needed a few more classes to get his associate's degree by his high school graduation.
He said his GPA at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is 4.0, while his high school GPA is 5.45.
A love of robotics
Despite being several years younger than his classmates, Wimmer said he gets along well with them -- and was even nominated to Homecoming Court last year.
Wimmer, who has an interest in robotics, told CNN that he's "the math and science guy." He's always had an affinity for technology -- he got his first iPad when he was 18 months old, and wondered how it worked.
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>>while his high school GPA is 5.45.
Extra credit?
Honors course count higher?
How do you exceed 4.0?
A GPA > 4.0 is achieved by doing lots of extra credit work.
AP courses.
But I’m not sure how to exceed 5.
On the Beverly Hillbillies a snooty rich woman said her grandson went to Eaton at only 15 years old.
Jed said: “Well our Jethro Bodine went to eatin’ when he was just a baby.”
To add to my previous comment: nowadays, a high school GPA of 4.0 is nice, but it’s not going to put you at the top of the ranks of students applying for university admissions.
Lots of kids like this burn out and do nothing in the long run
Yes, I thought AP classes will get you to 5.0 but not sure how you get >5.0?
2. I've said this before and got flamed for it, probably will again. Unless the piece of paper says 'Bachelor of', one is NOT a 'college graduate'.
> Honors course count higher? <
In the high school where I taught honors courses were given extra weight. But that bump was not applied when it came to choosing the class valedictorian. Only the unweighed GPA counted.
And it was disappointing to see how many of the good students avoided the more challenging honors classes. They didn’t want to mess up their chance to be valedictorian.
Good thing he got through before the criminal educrats get rid of the accelerated courses.
He even looks like “Young Sheldon.”
Always robots, or medicine, or engineering with these kids. I never see stories of these prodigy kids ever pursuing a career in elementary education, or business management, or any of the hyphenated studies...
he’s 12
Can he science?
Does he know how to construct a clock in a suitcase?
An associate’s degree today is easier than a high school diploma in 1950. So he’s a high school graduate. Wow?
This tells you more about how standards have been lowered to accommodate the lowest-common-denominator than anything else.
Damn white privilige.
Yes, an associate’s is a “college” degree, but it’s not a university degree. You’re half-right.
I would guess that he does. I would also guess that he will excel in university studies.
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