He won't be working - He'll stay in school, get his doctorate by 20 and then work at a physics lab at a University Spoiler
This thread should be moved to the D&D so that bigtexx and his posse can have a total meltdown. I think he is a product of a single parent home too.....and he's....wait for it..................black.
He's 11. I bet if you took your SAT when you were 11, you might have scored only half of that. 1770 for him is insane. In a few years he would easily be able to score in the 2300s.
Even more surprising that you feel the need to hypothetically complain about it. Keep 'em on their toes, right?
At a non-public school I have to be skeptical about the criteria, motives or reasoning behind the admission. The 1770 could be interpreted as good; if he scored only a 500 on his essay due to limited writing skills, then the Math/Verbal section is 1200 - 1300; which is probably still respectable enough to get into a private college in the South. I still think he should have gone to a top prep school that would accommodate higher math classes, some science research and give him some good foreign language and writing skills and then shoot for Ivies, Stanford or Oxbridge. Similarly he could have gone to Simon's Rock where they accommodate a combined high school/college curriculum.
1770?? The kid's clearly a genius, but judging from the score, it sounds like he's being rushed into college. If he can't score above average, then he clearly has not reached his pre-college potential!
In on of the Engineering classes that I TA in there is a 13 year old kid studying to become a Mechanical Engineer. The kid has already graduated HS and is a freshman this semester.
I don't know what's the standard is for genius 10yr olds taking SATs. But I think language may play a part in this. Taking out the math part, just understanding the problems and how it's phrased may be an issue when you're younger.
