How many here went to college before age 12?

[Jennasis]

 

[Mickey's Minion]

Yup, I went to college at the ripe old age of 3, graduated when I was 5, complete with paper cap and gown.

















I am a proud graduate of the Sarah Lawrence pre-school.

 

[Jennasis]

Seriously though...I do NOT see how having a high IQ (or even a GENIUS IQ) translates into going to (or harder still...being accepted into) college before the age of 12? And why 12? Why not 9? Such an arbitrary number.

This whole thread (while hopefully tongue in cheek) is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth. Maybe I should stop licking the screen.

 

[Aisling]

Seriously though...I do NOT see how having a high IQ (or even a GENIUS IQ) translates into going to (or harder still...being accepted into) college before the age of 12? And why 12? Why not 9? Such an arbitrary number.

This whole thread (while hopefully tongue in cheek) is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth. Maybe I should stop licking the screen.

In my first post, I mentioned seeing children on TV who have high IQs who had nothing left to learn in high school, and so they were admitted into college at age 12. Now that you mention it, there was a boy, Michael Kearney who entered college at age 9, and his sister at age 12. It's just a natural progression in education...finish high school and then go to college. Hope that helps.

This isn't tongue-in-cheek. And yes, please do stop licking the screen! Or better yet, don't read anymore, for the benefit of your taste buds.

 

[Jennasis]

In my first post, I mentioned seeing children on TV who have high IQs who had nothing left to learn in high school, and so they were admitted into college at age 12. Now that you mention it, there was a boy, Michael Kearney who entered college at age 9, and his sister at age 12. It's just a natural progression in education...finish high school and then go to college. Hope that helps.

This isn't tongue-in-cheek. And yes, please do stop licking the screen! Or better yet, don't read anymore, for the benefit of your taste buds.

I went back to the beginning. I misread your original post, after reading some of the replies. I thought you were insinuating something, I don't know...smarmy? Like: If you high IQ people are so smart, did you get into college as a child?

I see that is not what you were asking. I DID go to college with a kid who was some kind of math whiz. He was like 14 I believe.

 

[luvmyfam444]

Not me, but I know someone who I bet will go super early. He was in my class where I teach preschool. At age 2 he was reading chapter books and working fractions. Truly amazing. His grandfather and father are both MENSA members.

What the heck is this kid doing in preschool then? just there to make our kids look stupid I guess?

 

[Sparx]

dis is code for mensa, duh!

(i took college classes at 16, though. do i win the prize?)

 

[Imzadi]

I'm interested in this, too! What with so many people have 160+ IQs,

My IQ is 152 so I didn't make the cut.
Sheesh, missed a completely different life by a lousy 8 points.

Of course those missing 8 points could be because I came from an abusive, violent home. (Made spankings seem tame.) Maybe I'll write a tell all book about it like Mackenzie Phillips and get those 8 points back!

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

I took a few college classes during High School. I started when I was 14, although my principal actually talked to my parents about my taking a couple of college level classes starting when I was in 6th grade. I'm not sure how that would have worked because when my dad asked me about it, I told him I really wasn't interested in taking college classes yet. However, I wasn't a full-time college student until age 18. I think it had more to do with the fact that my parents started teaching me to read when I was 2 1/2 and how to do Algebra when I was 5 than it did with my IQ. When you start learning things earlier than most of your peers, it stands to reason you'll be ahead of your peers later on unless you just stop being taught things at home (which wasn't the case for me.) When I took standardized tests in 4th Grade, I was already testing at an end of Senior year level in Reading.

 

[sunnyday123]

Facebook said my IQ is 140...can I get a Mena application emailed to me please??

 

[Imzadi]

Yup, I went to college at the ripe old age of 3, graduated when I was 5, complete with paper cap and gown.

You got a paper cap? I was given an aluminum conehead.

 

[Imzadi]

Facebook said my IQ is 140...can I get a Mena application emailed to me please??

You can take the Mensa test online. It's quite easy... umm, err, depending on how smart you are.

 

[Aisling]

Facebook said my IQ is 140...can I get a Mena application emailed to me please??

Sure, as long as you write out a check for $12! Well, it may have gone up...that's how much it cost years ago for MENSA to let me know I wasn't a genius!

I really wonder about the truly gifted children in college, though.

I saw a movie called Little Man Tate (starring Jodie Foster), and he went to a school for genius's. I love that movie.

 

[monkeybug]

You can take the Mensa test online. It's quite easy... umm, err, depending on how smart you are.

Does the Mensa test count if you take it online? I thought I'd heard that it had to be taken with a member present? I'm no genius but I'm pretty sure if I opened a second tab and googled the questions I'd ace that quiz
The facebook IQ test makes me laugh. Pretty sure there are no questions about Polar Bears on the Mensa one...

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I went to college at the ripe old age of 5.

My mother went back to school and took me with her a couple of times for class extra credit. (I dimly remember a play kitchen. . .I and some other kids were observed at play. I think it was something to do with sex roles????)

Does that count?

For the record, MENSA will also accept ACT, SAT, GRE and some other graduate exams in the place of an IQ test. But I've never understood a club with admittance based upon IQ tests. Astronomy clubs, archaeology clubs, book clubs, things like that seem to me to be a better place to meet smart people - and you have things in common with them!

 

[Beca]

MENSA is not really that big of a deal....one out of every 50 qualify (it's the top 2% of the IQ population). My dh and I are members, and our dd qualified at the age of 5. We made her a member just so we could take her to outings with other MENSA kids.

Now, there are societies for people with the top .2% and the top .1%....THOSE are prestigious. Sadly, I don't qualify for either of those. My dh qualifies for the .2% one, and our dd qualifies for the .1% one.....but, honestly there is not much for kids to do in those groups, so we did not get her a membership.

I know this thread was very tongue-in-cheek, but seriously....just because someone CAN go to college early does not mean they should!! My dd will NOT be going to college early...I don't care how advanced she is!!! There are just so many other social and safety aspects to consider. Heck...she'll be lucky if I let her go to the movies by herself when she is 12...much less go to a university!!! You have to remember that MANY of these super-bright kids have NO COMMON SENSE whatsoever!!!

However, we are considering letting her apply for Standford University's EPGY OHS program when she starts 7th grade.....that should keep her home for awhile!!!

 

[Tiffany]

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[Imzadi]

Does the Mensa test count if you take it online? I thought I'd heard that it had to be taken with a member present? I'm no genius but I'm pretty sure if I opened a second tab and googled the questions I'd ace that quiz

I think they may make you take another one in person to be sure that a genius didn't take the test for you. The online test is probably to also weed out the people who show up and and start wailing, "What do you mean I can't join???" "Well, for the third time, I'll repeat slowly, you can't join because..."

But I've never understood a club with admittance based upon IQ tests. Astronomy clubs, archaeology clubs, book clubs, things like that seem to me to be a better place to meet smart people - and you have things in common with them!

Yes, I figured a bunch of people who are just know-it-alls would seem very boring, stuffy and arrogant to me. Who wants to hear a bunch of people who have nothing in common spouting off how much they know?

But, get me in a room with someone who is absolutely brilliant, like in the act of creating art, which I am interested in and can understand his passion & process, and understand when he has a brilliant moment of sheer genius coming up with a new idea or way of doing something differently, that gets me all excited. I love learning. I love growing and expanding - but it's got to be something I'm interested in.

Or being with a group of people talking about a great book, like The Da Vinci Code, or our True Blood thread, with other people who are into it and coming up with great theories along the same lines, I'm IN!

But, being in a room full of people who just spout off facts, figures, info just because they can, ho-hum! <yawn>

 

[Cindy B]

Sure, as long as you write out a check for $12! Well, it may have gone up...that's how much it cost years ago for MENSA to let me know I wasn't a genius!

I really wonder about the truly gifted children in college, though.

I saw a movie called Little Man Tate (starring Jodie Foster), and he went to a school for genius's. I love that movie.

Little Man Tate is a good movie. This person I dated went to a school similar to that. I knew this person when he was in his mid 20's-- so while so many other people were just starting to work, he had been in the work force full time since 15-16. When we met, he was doing programming for a small firm.

He then "retired" from corporate world-- at about age 27 or so and has had his own successful business of for years.

This person is still extremely smart.

 

[golfgal]

I went back to the beginning. I misread your original post, after reading some of the replies. I thought you were insinuating something, I don't know...smarmy? Like: If you high IQ people are so smart, did you get into college as a child?

I see that is not what you were asking. I DID go to college with a kid who was some kind of math whiz. He was like 14 I believe.

My DS17 has a boy in his grade like this. He started taking college math as a 9th grader after having tested out of high school math in 8th grade. He is now 17 and has a private math tutor because the college math is too easy for him . He takes the rest of his classes at the high school though.