<p>Lots of great posts - Cricket, Marite, MotherofTwo. I was actually trying to raise this as a general issue, not specific to my S. When I wrote my last post I was thinking of Marite's S and all the kids who are like him but aren't fortunate enough to live a stone's throw from Harvard. What happens to them?</p>
<p>We are actually fortunate to live in an urban area with a flexible school system and a number of nearby colleges willing to accommodate an advanced student. After much debate and weeks of testing, he was accelerated into advanced high school classes while still in elementary school. I was the taxi. The school system developed a long range plan which included college classes throughout high school. I had to do a lot of advocacy and leg work to make sure this continued over the years. Then there were the scheduling and transportation problems. The high school also let him double up on AP science classes which carried him through his senior year. Senior year was tough to fill up with a challenging curriculum, but it worked out when another local college offered a program that was mostly utilized by private schools in the area for their advanced kids. I had to call the college myself and tell them to send application information to my son's school, because they had never participated before.</p>
<p>One of my first thoughts when he got into Princeton was, "What a relief to not have to worry about what this kid is going to do for math/science next year!" But Im sure there are similar kids in other parts of the country that dont have those resources available.</p>
<p>parentny- Exeter also went out of their way to make sure Tiankai Liu was one of their students. My S went to his first national math meet when he was in the 7th grade. When he returned, I told him what a great accomplishment it was to just make the team as a 7th grader. He replied, Well the kid who won the whole thing was an 8th grader from California, and Exeter is giving him a full scholarship!</p>