5 degrees should not be possible imo. Not because you can’t master 5 subjects but because you shouldn’t have time to do 5 classes worth of work.
It feels manufactured. Talking about the kid doing archery and going to 23 countries makes me feel this even more.
I assume part of the trick here is that there's substantial overlap in the requirements for each degree: all of those but history are actually interdisciplinary studies degrees, each with a different "emphasis."
Not to put down a 9-to-12-year-old taking community college classes, obviously that's impressive in its own right. It's just that there's probably a little bit of a gimmick involved.
It's all padding.
No one has the time to do any of that with any level of competency!
I'm trying to remember any college course I took out of the three degrees I have (and extra college courses outside of that) that didn't require a lot of work. I'm not sure where you are coming up with this idea that it's not a lot of work and that it's okay to downplay someone's drive and abilities. Maybe it'd be more useful for you to do some internal reflection instead of dumping this garbage out on everyone here.
Nobody gets 5 degrees in unrelated things out of personal interest. Especially not at 12. Normal interested people may take additional classes in other areas, but you don’t get 5 degrees unless you optimize for getting 5 degrees. Again, purely based on time.
The kid also had to be homeschool for normal school stuff the entire time. I say because I got annoyed and dug up additional info.
They're associate's degrees from Fullerton, a community college.
> It feels manufactured.
It sounds more "enabled" to me. I'm jealous. I wish I had been able to take community college classes with a little more depth instead of boring junior high.
If I got the details right, he completed 10 years of studies in 3 years. That's impressive, especially for someone so young, but not unreasonable. Back when I was an undergrad in Finland, we had an informal definition for a high achieving student: 100 old credit units in a year, or 2.5x the nominal pace, with good grades. I knew a few people who did that at least once, and there was a newspaper story of someone who had apparently done it 7 years in a row.
This is an extreme analogy but there is a huge difference between reading about war and fighting in one
Not in any meaningful, reality-based sense. If the place is legitimately accredited, there are always some significant requirements well beyond the description of "basically nothing".