Remarkableriots Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 12-year-old graduated from college with a 4.0 GPA—here’s why her parents are sending her to high school WWW.CNBC.COM Fiona Currie made history by earning an associate degree from Los Angeles City College at age 12. Her next stop, her parents say: high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gamer.tv Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Not to diminish the achievement but I wonder what the reasoning behind the degree choice was. It’ll be interesting to see what life is like for someone that could probably see put high school academically in a few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 1 hour ago, gamer.tv said: Not to diminish the achievement but I wonder what the reasoning behind the degree choice was. It’ll be interesting to see what life is like for someone that could probably see put high school academically in a few weeks. In the US, the vast majority of the first 2 years of college are pretty much going over the same shit you learned in high school again, anyway. Assuming you didn't go all the way through calculus in high school, you pretty much have to start over at algebra again in college. It's kind of dumb if you ask me. I think it's because, in my experience at least, most high school kids don't take math during their senior year, so by the time they get to college they've pretty much forgotten everything. So she's doing it in reverse. She pretty much gets to skip the first 2 years of college when she gets there, but I don't know if she'll be THAT far ahead of some of her high school classmates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 19 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said: In the US, the vast majority of the first 2 years of college are pretty much going over the same shit you learned in high school again, anyway. Assuming you didn't go all the way through calculus in high school, you pretty much have to start over at algebra again in college. It's kind of dumb if you ask me. I think it's because, in my experience at least, most high school kids don't take math during their senior year, so by the time they get to college they've pretty much forgotten everything. So she's doing it in reverse. She pretty much gets to skip the first 2 years of college when she gets there, but I don't know if she'll be THAT far ahead of some of her high school classmates. That’s interesting to know. In the UK, if a degree says you need say Maths, English and History, you’d better be ready start from the end point of your high school education and progress quickly, including more full on assessment and content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, gamer.tv said: That’s interesting to know. In the UK, if a degree says you need say Maths, English and History, you’d better be ready start from the end point of your high school education and progress quickly, including more full on assessment and content. Yeah, European universities operate differently, as @Jason knows. In the US, to get a bachelor's degree, no matter what the degree is, you spend most of your first 2 years doing general liberal arts. So it's pretty much a super-condensed version of high school In some ways it works well, as a lot of people will change their majors between freshman and junior year, so you're not necessarily locked into a certain major as soon as you enter. You can experiment with different things as the curriculum for most students for the first 2 years is very similar, regardless of their major. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 I don’t know how I’d feel about that. My course was for a purpose (which naturally I never fulfilled) and my postgrad was even more specific. The potential Masters is even more than that. It would be nice to not box my education off, but I’d feel hard done by paying 2 years for a fairly general education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted June 20, 2023 Author Share Posted June 20, 2023 9 hours ago, Fizzzzle said: In the US, the vast majority of the first 2 years of college are pretty much going over the same shit you learned in high school again, anyway. Assuming you didn't go all the way through calculus in high school, you pretty much have to start over at algebra again in college. It's kind of dumb if you ask me. I think it's because, in my experience at least, most high school kids don't take math during their senior year, so by the time they get to college they've pretty much forgotten everything. So she's doing it in reverse. She pretty much gets to skip the first 2 years of college when she gets there, but I don't know if she'll be THAT far ahead of some of her high school classmates. She already graduated college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 7 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: She already graduated college. Just an associate degree in “studio art”. Quote She's also working on earning a certificate that'll allow her to enter a California state college as a third-year student. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 28 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: She already graduated college. Nobody likes a show off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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