Posted on 04/24/2022 12:14:19 PM PDT by RummyChick
A 13-year-old boy from Minnesota will soon earn his bachelor's degree from college - with a major in physics and a minor in math - and has been accepted into the University of Minnesota's Physics PhD program.
Now his parents are trying to figure out how to pay for it.
Elliott Tanner, known as a profoundly gifted child, is maintaining a 3.78 grade point average at the University of Minnesota and is participating in undergraduate research while also tutoring classmates.
He wants to be a high-energy theoretical physicist and eventually a professor of physics at the university, however, tuition costs for the graduate program have been an obstacle, his mother, Michelle Tanner, said.
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Funding for Ph.D. student
Yes, if they are teaching assistants and supervise undergrad lab courses. At 13, there are probably a long list of state laws, workman comp, and OSHA regulations against this.
Kid and parents need to talk to ‘Native American’ E. WarrenIdiot.........
This is the US!
I’m sure there are minimum age, citizenship, gender, state residency, parental occupation, family income/means testing, of course race, and even sexual orientation requirements.
Academic performance isn’t that important.
The guy graduated at age 13. Something is quite right.
I thought Einstein was a little slow as a youngster.
They could do a post-doc.
Graduating early and starting a serious job ( with its on the job training) at a younger age adds up to thousands, ( millions?) over a working lifetime.
Great points!
How many bazillion is eleventy million?
Please if he’s that great colleges should be bending over to get him on scholarship. Shouldn’t need funding or financial aid…
Sheldon Cooper should pay his tuition.
But if you are under 18, you can’t sign a binding contract, so he is stuck.
Freudian slip?
At age 13, I worked off the books for my uncle. I worked maybe four hours on Saturday mornings, before my little League Baseball games. Maybe he could do something like that.
Is that what you’re suggesting?
Sorry Elliot, no financial aid for you...But if you can dunk a basketball, let’s talk...
LOL
How true!
A case being too smart for his own good.
🤣
Young Sheldon
The kid needs a haircut fit for a boy.
Been more than a few accomplish that feat.
True... was thinking about that idiocy when commenting.
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