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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LOL, we’re all human! Keep at it with the kid, they’re sponges when you start that young.
There aren’t any govt funded grad loans. At least not for my kids. They were all private.
I’ve read many stories over the years about “little Einsteins” blasting through university at a wee age, but I don’t recall any since regarding about adult scientists or mathematicians of great renown who began as “little Einsteins”. Even Einstein didn’t start out as that sort of “little Einstein”.
Carl Gauss came close; his story seems truly exceptional.
dont need to Just say hes a trans brown/black ...
And as I glance at my desk, I think of Einstein..."If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk a sign??
Good points.
‘Little Einsteins’ are too young to be self-confident rebels, so absorb the current paradigms and end up finding it very difficult to ‘think outside the box’.
Let him flip burgers for a few years- might be good for him to see that the world doesn’t owe him every bit of whatever his intellectual needs are.
masters degree in chemistry at 14. IQ 200.
went on games shows and does Improv
https://www.al.com/living/2018/05/at_age_10_worlds_youngest_coll.html
Many of these super young PhD potentials often burn out before they are 25 years of age, I have read. That may be part of the difficulty.
I get the ego kibbles parents get when their kid has so much promise, but now may be a time to round the kid out a bit and get him an AA diploma in something that will pay the bills while he works a PhD.
Please... The kid should be getting scholarship offers out the wazzoo
“Except they haven’t.”
They won’t, either. Lots of smart people in the world. Too many Affirmative Action candidates get in first.
I dont get this story about Laurent. His IQ isn’t that much more than mine but he graduated high school at the age of 8
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50856999
Clearly there was something fine tuned in his brain.
Unfortunately for him, the boy is White.
If he were a Negro they would be lined up around the block. As Dr. Samuel Johnson noted " like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It's not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
At 10 years old, my son hacked the administrator panel of the science lab software and reset everyone’s password.
He avoided punishment because he got on the phone with the developer and told him how he did it.
There are truly brilliant children out there.
Under PL 94-142, we throw billions at struggling students.
We throw a fraction of that at our brightest students.
Meanwhile, we ship trillions overseas to feed the military industrial complex.
Our priorities are out of whack.
If little Elliot is so gifted why isn’t he getting a full ride from the college? If he’s so smart, he should be able to make some money on his own.... Nope.. go beg somewhere else. Nothing special here.
“Have a video of my daughter calling out countries, and she points to them. She had trouble with Egypt. So my daughter gave a clue “north west africa” bingo she got it immediately.”
The problem is, Egypt is NOT in northwest Africa. It’s in far north Africa; and, if anything, it is in north EAST Africa.
Almost all PhD students get funding
When is his mental breakdown to occur?
He could probably get some private tutoring from a PhD in Physics pro bono.
Some adult borderline genius would love to be a mentor.
Has he picked his/her agenda yet? I presume that is a requirement for graduation now.
There is a saying. If you are accepted to a graduate program and they don’t offer you financial assistance, that’s a hint about whether you should be in graduate school.
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