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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But they aren't your intellectual peers -- they're just older.  So you risk creating a social problem without solving the academic one.  And you send a really bright kid to college at an age where s/he doesn't have the experience or judgment to get as much out of it as s/he would at a later age.

Skipping senior year to go to MIT makes sense to me -- it's just one year and in some cases, kids will have maxed out their HS's curriculum at that stage.  But doing your undergrad degree from 14-17 strikes me as a really bad idea in most cases.  Glad it worked out for your brother.  Was he in a STEM field?[/quote]

He got an MD/PhD and is a prof at a medical school.  Does research but also maintains a private practice.

Hopkins has a long history of taking PG kids early and integrating them as undergrads.  My brothers keeps up with some who were there when he was there and they have all done very well, mostly STEM fields or mathcentric like finance.  I wouldn't hesitate to send my kid there if he qualifies.

FYI, DB turned down Exeter and Andover to go to Hopkins and for him, it worked out perfectly.[/quote]

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