12-Year-Old Homeschooler is Now a Cornell Freshman

 

 

by Micah J. Fleck

According to a new story that broke just yesterday, Cornell University just enrolled its youngest freshman ever in 12-year-old Jeremy Shuler – a boy genius from Grand Prairie, TX. With an IQ of 156, young Jeremy has made history by entering into his freshman year at Cornell (a universally lauded, academically arduous Ivy League school).

How did this even occur? Well, Jeremy is homeschooled, and as such was able to naturally excel in his subjects and surpass the standard grade level as he continued to progress at an unusually fast pace. Had Jeremy been enrolled in public school, his gifts would have gone unnoticed and he would have been forced to stay at most a grade level or two above his typical age – bypassing high school altogether would have been difficult since the public school institution is designed to mask individual strengths and promulgate mass conformity.

But Jeremy’s parents, both aerospace engineers, were keen to teach him in a way that celebrated his individual intellectual growth.

According to the story:

When Shuler was 5, he plowed through The Lord of the Rings and Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics without any help. So his mom and dad decided against enrolling him in kindergarten.

Shuler, who lives off-campus with his parents, told the AP he’s adjusting to college life. “I was nervous at first, but I’m a lot more excited than nervous now,” he revealed. “As Mommy said, all the kids in math camp were older than me, so I’m used to having older friends. As long as they like math.”

He added that classes “are kind of easy so far, but I know they’ll be harder pretty soon.”

You’re being modest, Jeremy.

(Featured Image Credit: Mike Groll/AP Photo)

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