<p>To get back to the OP. Your son definitely needs to spend a lot more time with kids his age before thinking about college. Going to college that young will make him an outsider, too small, too young, to be really a part of the environment. Also, your comments about his non science skills, esp writing and literature mean he is nowhere near ready. All elite colleges expect their students to be very good at this, and by your account he is slightly above grade level. This would make the college literature courses an impossible challenge.</p>
<p>So what to do? </p>
<p>First, do whatever you must to keep him moving forward with his beloved math and science. Local universities may be the answer for the more advanced courses. The online and distance learning courses tend to be less satisfactory at higher levels since the classes themselves are more discussion based than the intro and mid level college courses.</p>
<p>Second, have you considered conventional boarding schools in a few years? Places like Andover, Exeter, St. Paul’s, and others of their ilk have a number of brilliant kids and provide them with courses at their level in their accelerated fields, and appropriate levels in other areas. At the same time, they can join clubs, sports teams, and other EC’s with students their age, rather than trying to compete with bigger, stronger, older, college age people. I would not send a child to such a place at 10, but 12 or 13 becomes reasonable. These places will have enough brilliant students that he will have some company with others who have similar skewed academic backgrounds. These schools provide a level of support and attention appropriate to age, much more than he would get at college. </p>
<p>A similar approach, if available in your area, would be a top day school that enrolls a reasonable number of top scholar students. </p>
<p>Then he could graduate at 15-17 and head to college just slightly younger than most students. He might even take time off and do a year abroad.</p>
<p>He could then enter Harvard or MIT having completed the coursework in his major for an undergrad degree. They know how to deal with such people. </p>
<p>I second the advice of AOPS and math contests. Whether he likes this kind of math or not, it will introduce you to a community of students and parents across the country who are facing the same questions. If he does not want to pursue the competitions the contacts could be valuable.</p>