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Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - Life Long Learning - 07-13-2018
Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement, Albany, New York - 7/13/2018
12 Year Old Graduate
72 Year Old Graduate
5,077 Total Graduates (171,000 now)
15 Nations
33% in Uniform
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - Toastmaster - 07-13-2018
Impressive stats!
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - MNomadic - 07-13-2018
Very cool!
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - homeschoolmom1 - 07-13-2018
So they don't have an minimum age?
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - Jdesign - 07-14-2018
I saw this article about the 12 year old graduate. https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/12-year-old-graduates-excelsior-college/1300957688
Its a great achievement, but are we pushing kids too much? is this good for kids, or the schools image?
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - MNomadic - 07-14-2018
I saw that too and didn't even notice it was excelsior. It says she still maintains a healthy childhood lifestyle, socializing with friends and playing regularly. Definitely shouldn't push kids to achieve unreasonable expectations but I think there are genuinely a handful of very gifted individuals who want to move fast through their education like that.
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - bluebooger - 07-14-2018
makes Excelsior sound like a joke
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - dfrecore - 07-14-2018
(07-14-2018, 02:19 PM)Jdesign Wrote: I saw this article about the 12 year old graduate. https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/12-year-old-graduates-excelsior-college/1300957688
Its a great achievement, but are we pushing kids too much? is this good for kids, or the schools image?
Its not like they have 37 12-yo's graduating each year. There was ONE.
There will always be young students graduating from college here and there. Harvard graduated a 14yo in 2013, Cornell admitted a 12yo in 2016, an 11-yo CC student with 3 AA's graduated from UC Davis in 2018. None of these schools seem like a joke to me, but when Excelsior has one, all of a sudden the school is the problem?
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - Life Long Learning - 07-14-2018
Giving opportunity is what Excelsior College is about! Maybe they are just joining the elites!
At 12 I could not do it myself.
Oxford University had 12-year old Ruth Lawrence earn a math degree.
RE: Excelsior College 47th Annual Commencement - 12 Year Old Graduate - Life Long Learning - 07-15-2018
Local news on 12-year-old graduates Excelsior College
https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/12-year-old-graduates-excelsior-college/1300957688