Meet the 12-year-old graduating high school and college in the same week

CNN ^ | April 28, 2021 | Rachel Trent

[a fool in paradise]

>>while his high school GPA is 5.45.

Extra credit?

Honors course count higher?

How do you exceed 4.0?

[dinodino]

A GPA > 4.0 is achieved by doing lots of extra credit work.

[ifinnegan]

AP courses.

But I’m not sure how to exceed 5.

[frank ballenger]

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.”

[dinodino]

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.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Lots of kids like this burn out and do nothing in the long run

[halo66]

Yes, I thought AP classes will get you to 5.0 but not sure how you get >5.0?

[real saxophonist]

1. I expected this to be a girl with an Indian name.

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'.

[Leaning Right]

> 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.

[Seruzawa]

Good thing he got through before the criminal educrats get rid of the accelerated courses.

[Menehune56]

He even looks like “Young Sheldon.”

[jz638]

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...

[joshua c]

he’s 12

[a fool in paradise]

Can he science?

Does he know how to construct a clock in a suitcase?

[not_under_duress]

An associate’s degree today is easier than a high school diploma in 1950. So he’s a high school graduate. Wow?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This tells you more about how standards have been lowered to accommodate the lowest-common-denominator than anything else.

[sunny bonobo]

Damn white privilige.

[dinodino]

Yes, an associate’s is a “college” degree, but it’s not a university degree. You’re half-right.

[dinodino]

I would guess that he does. I would also guess that he will excel in university studies.