Let us all bow our heads

[curmudgeon]

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@bdm

The most important question, of course, will be: why the rush? Did he not enjoy undergrad? Couldn’t he find interesting things to do, interesting classes to take, interesting people to meet and spend time with? (Yes, I know there are cost concerns, but socially normal people find a way to make it work.) Many students who accelerate through will express an attitude of, “Why waste time?” Your undergraduate years are not a waste of time, and if a student openly considers them to be such, that’s a major warning flag. It tells you about his intellectual curiousity (low), his social bonding at that school (low), his involvement with the community (low), and his capacity to learn humbly and appreciate his place as a student (low). Of course, not all accelerated students feel this way! But enough do that this causes a problem.

I could have written this. But I didn’t. Now I don’t have to. ;)</p>