[Vigilanteman]

My late uncle actually quit high school at age 16 because it bored him, then took and passed the entrance exam for Harvard. In those days, you could get in by passing an entrance exam.

This was roughly the same time period that Ted Kennedy got in based on his family legacy and was flunked out for hiring another student to take his Spanish test.

My Unk proceeded to earn a Harvard MBA, then a PhD elsewhere and went on to a lucrative career in international business and later as a college professor and dean of a business college in Minnesota. When people asked him for advice at family reunions, he'd give a deadpan shrug and say "How do you expect me to know, I'm a high school dropout."

[Getready]

Great story.

[Graybeard58]

My late uncle actually quit high school at age 16 because it bored him

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I believe that may be a common problem. I know that I was mostly bored for 12 years of public school. 1951-1963. Even back then teachers had to teach to the (s)lowest common denominator and it was an insufferable drag for students who thirsted for more.