<p>For what it’s worth, there is a private school that was started by Columbia U. to offer good educational options for recruited faculty members. It’s a K-8 school
<a href=“http://theschool.columbia.edu/about/history”>http://theschool.columbia.edu/about/history</a>
and also recruits scholarship students from the local neighborhoods.</p>
<p>But I think it’s extremely unprobable that Columbia Business School is recruiting 8th graders.</p>
<p>Some students are accepted at young ages: <a href=“Young Students Grow, Adapt to Life at Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson”>Young Students Grow, Adapt to Life at Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson. There are a few exceptions–but that’s rare enough to merit an article in the Harvard Crimson. Note as well that the students seem to have completed a high school curriculum before enrolling. They are not jumping from 10th grade to the Ivies.</p>
<p>One might ask why would the extremely selective schools do this? Well-qualified kids from prep schools are a dime a dozen, and they are all probably going to apply to the Ivies anyway. Why on earth would the schools need to go out and recruit them?</p>
<p>The whole story is goofy. It is possible that every once in a while some super-genius kid is essentially recruited informally into top schools, but there is certainly no program to do so. Really rich people may get courted, but that’s a different story, as is athletic recruitment, which really can start before senior year.</p>
<p>Every aspect of this story is at least 99.999999% likely to be untrue. Why waste time speculating about the < 0.000001% chance it is true? Who lives life that way?</p>
<p>^^Those obsessed with “fairness”, conspiracy theorists, anyone looking for shortcuts instead of hard work, etc. You know the type.</p>
<p>Personally, I think there are some very rare cases where it’s possible for undergrad, but those people are so far beyond you and me and our kids that I don’t worry about it. No one is getting an autoadmit into any grad school without first doing the undergrad thing.</p>
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<p>Good point when put that way. </p>
<p>No, @toesockshoe, the Columbia website you reference indicates undergraduate Business Management is a “Major, Concentration, or Program of Study,” not a School. This isn’t semantics; there is a VERY SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCE. </p>
<p>@TopTier ok, im not too sure whether the father said he’s going to columbia business schools or studying business at columbia, but isnt either possibility Very VERY low?</p>
<p>Iunno, I find it hard to believe that top schools would try so hard to recruit a non-d1 athlete unless said kid is rolling in money or has won some major awards. Ivies just get too many qualified(if not over-qualified) candidates to be out hunting for sophomores and juniors. </p>
<p>PBS will give us a answer within the decade in the form of a 3-hour documentary anywho.</p>
<p>From the news articles I’ve seen and kids people have mentioned at our local UC campus, the very young kids who start college are generally homeschoolers, not prep school students.</p>
<p>yeah, i think we can all agree that the story the dad is telling is most probably made up. lets just end it here.</p>