@iwannabe_Brown
I also had a college classmate a couple of classes ahead of me who graduated from our college with high honors at 17.
One semester, he managed to register for and complete the equivalent of 7-8 full time classes and audited a couple more just to see if he could do it. And there were all 300-400 level colloquium/seminar type classes with massive reading loads and research requirements…no gut courses or easy intermediate/intro classes with 400 pages of reading/week or less. He crushed them academically, but even he admitted that was a struggle and one he wouldn’t repeat or recommend to others.
We all thought he was nuts while also feeling awed by how he managed to get through it without crashing and burning.