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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I can’t find anything on him for the last 17 years, except he lives in Honolulu.
It’s bs.
A Ph..D. Program in physics covers tuition.
Besides it will upset the Chinese physics profs and grad students to have a “round eyed foreign devil” smarter than they think they are.
He’s obviously a racist and a white supremacist. /s/
At 79 I still do my times tables periodically. I didn’t realize they stopped teaching the times table.
All the kid has to do is start spewing out the woke nonsense and talk bad about Trump and conservatives, and all the woke democrats and woke TV networks and woke social media sites will start funding him after a few appearances and comments in their networks.
it seems ingrained into the asian mindset.
an example is the chinese piano prodigy that I posted about. Clearly he is gifted. however, no way the parents knew he would be that gifted when he was plonking around on those piano keys at the age of 1 in that video. He looks like every other kid plonking on the keys.
They bought him a 20 grand piano. I think at the age of 2. They still probably didnt know yet. It’s like they expected it and lucked out that he actually is a prodigy.
My children were accepted into college at the ages of 13,12, and 13. Because for their young ages they could not apply for any financial aid.
My kids are not exceptionally bright. They were homeschooled. Drive by any government high school and the top 10% could and should be graduating from college. Instead they are wasting their lives in government schools.
I’m 78....I work complicated math problems daily..it’s what I love. They’re associated with my hobby.
See post 38. It was me with the geography problem.
I like to do Sudoku puzzles online. Keeps the mind sharp.
College is only for rich people’s kids and it’s getting worse. If not they want you to be saddled with huge debt for it. The wealthy don’t want upward mobility for the working class. They are now doing the same thing by sabotaging free k-12 public education
If you skip college and flip burgers and can’t live, they say go to college get a “real job”
If you go to college and can’t live because debt they say you shouldn’t have done that
Only option is trade/tech vocational schools or JCs but that still keeps the working class working class
Or get a job at amazon walmart etc for pennies like it’s an 1800s steel mill or coal mine
Except that Egypt is at the northeastern corner of Africa. Morocco is northwest.
I am sure someone this gifted will get a scholarship. I wish him well. What a brain this guy has to graduate from college at age 13!
Real-life Sheldon Cooper. I do have a question, perhaps not entirely inappropriate. Has he been diagnosed with Asperger’s? This neurological state has been associated with some extremely high IQ capabilities, but with other personality traits that are - unusual.
Everybody I knew was either a research assistant or a teaching assistant and, so, in a sense, worked their why through the Ph.D. program. Plus, that experience was a big plus seeking a job either as a college professor or as a researcher afterwords. I’m thinking, were it even legal, what could you hire a 13-year old to do? For that matter, what could a 17-year old with a Ph.D. do? School isn’t or shouldn’t be an end in itself but a means by which those with the aptitude are able to lead happy and productive lives.
Well if his goal in life is to be a college professor, he could sit out a few seasons and work. The world will survive.
I believe it.
My children were accepted into college at the ages of 13,12, and 13.
Little smarty-kids trying to act like they belong in college
probably ought to have got they but-tocks kicked by the normal folks.
In fact, that's likely why they had to be homeschooled in the first place.
Bet they cried a lot before they got coddled.
Not always. Mike Wimmer is a very bright kid who graduated simultaneously from high school and community college at the age of 12. Actually, I believe that he could have graduated from “real” college at that age if he had wanted to, but he is not fixated on an academic career unlike many other super-bright kids. He says that going to school wasn’t very useful (he learned most things by himself) and going to college is only one of his options.
There are several interviews with him on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCALNnIzsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRGbAwUQP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn_RAQFwbow
Most grad students have to do some teaching of undergrads to pay for their graduate work. The undergrads might not like being taught by a “high schooler”.
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