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Baroque Bloke
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“A 16-year-old boy from Kansas is set to graduate from high school and Harvard in the exact same month.

Child genius Braxton Moral is a senior at Ulysses High school and has simultaneously been taking classes at Harvard's Extension School.

Braxton is set to get his diplomas from his high school and the esteemed Ivy League university in May. His family says they'll head to the East Coast to attend the milestone commencement ceremony in person.

He'll be making history as the only student to successfully pursue a four-year high school degree and achieve a bachelor's degree from Harvard, according to The Hutchinson News.

The genius has hopes to one day enter politics and maybe even become the president, all the while he's still too young too vote.

'Ideally, I would be going to Harvard Law School...Politics is end game for me,' he said, citing former presidents Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower as his role models…”

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I saw this same story on a different site, but didn't read it all the way through. If Reagan and Eisenhower are role models, guessing he's Republican? Sounds like he's well on his way to a successful life, provided he doesn't fall into the same "I'm entitled" BS the rest of his generation seems to vomit everywhere.
 
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Politics is end game for me,' he said, citing former presidents Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower as his role models

Encouraging. The left’s rising stars are morons that have no concept of government, budget, or the country’s future beyond a few years. Great to see his role models aren’t movie stars or failed socialist ner-do-Wells.

It is refreshing to see a young person not tied up in self absorption and mired in the trappings of rolling along, content to have everything provided for him throughout his early adult years.




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If he is so smart, why did he chose Harvard?
(Said with sarcasm thinking of Hogg & Harvard)


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Originally posted by TRIO:
If he is so smart, why did he chose Harvard?
(Said with sarcasm thinking of Hogg & Harvard)

Justice Gorsuch attended Harvard.



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My comment was said with this quote from another thread in mind....

I am pretty sure the best days of Harvard are behind them

when they admit someone of the class and caliber of Hogg to their institution, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel

perhaps all the really smart and gifted are waking up to the fact that Harvard no longer has the same cachet it once had and the financial costs of going there, let alone living in the Boston environment is just 3 out of 3 strikes

lots of other universities, lots of better universities and you don't need the extra crap


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Any 16 year-old, genius or idiot, that says he wants to go into politics and become president, scares the crap out of me.
 
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Child’s play.

Obtaining a diploma stating you obtained knowledge is one thing, doing something with knowledge you have is where you change the world.

Here is a 2013 article on Taylor Wilson, who “first came to attention at the tender age of 14 after he designed a nuclear fission reactor he planned to build in his parents' garage.”

US teenager Taylor Wilson designs compact nuclear reactor

Speech given shortly after graduating high school.
My Radical Plans for Small Nuclear Fission Reactors

Taylor Wilson

Taylor’s Nuke Site

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Nerds!
 
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Harvards Extension School must not be like Harvard.

My niece is in her 3rd year at Harvard and the homework workload alone is 35-40 hours per week. Couple that with about 25 hours of classes,labs and lectures. Now add 35 hours per week of high school classes and the associated homework workload - and - the numbers don't really add up unless this genius has discovered a scientific secret to living with zero hours of sleep for 4 years.
 
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I'm pretty sure his college courses cover his HS requirements. My neighbor's kid graduated HS at 16 and was taking classes at Georgia Tech his senior year. He only went to the high school once or twice a week





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Now add 35 hours per week of high school classes...

It quite likely that he finished his required high school courses very early (like in 9th grade) and has been taking college classes exclusively ever since. I had a high school sophomore come to my college drafting program every day instead of reporting to the high school. She would have gotten her high school diploma and associates degree in drafting and design at the same time except for a class that wasn't offered. She took that class as well as 12 non-required credits so she had a second drafting discipline (structural & architectural) in the summer semester.

Last I heard she has finished her civil engineering degree and is working up North somewhere.




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