Seventeen year old earns doctoral degree

[Sam D]

I'm impressed!


It's the latest in a long line of educational achievements for the graduate, who started dual enrollment for high school courses at just 8-years-old before earning her associate's degree in psychology from the College of Lake County at age 10 and her bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Excelsior College at age 12.



17-Year-Old Chicago Girl Graduates with Doctoral Degree

 

[Rustyt1953]

Outstanding! Those are incredible achievements. She gives one hope for the future.

Good for her.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Yeah..... liberal arts degree is the key,, if you can tie your shoes you can get one.

What an inane statement.

 

[lihpster]

Yeah..... liberal arts degree is the key,, if you can tie your shoes you can get one.

Well, she got an associates degree in psych at 10. That's some pretty advanced thinking for a 10 year old. At 10 I was playing with Hot Wheels cars in the dirt and jumping my bike over 2 bricks and a piece of plywood. I barely had a handle on the concept of self, much less that there were, in effect, several selves in the same mind, sometimes working at cross purposes to one another. I bet she could tie her shoes.

 

[wood714]

Yeah..... liberal arts degree is the key,, if you can tie your shoes you can get one.

Post up a copy of yours.

 

[Imissedagain]

I like smart kids that are hard workers.
An ancestor was so smart that she got her first degree, before the college opened and before California was a country.
A wizard kid for sure.
We just call her Granny. She invented the toothbrush, taught Magellan how to use the GPS and advised printers to read aloud before running the press.

 

[Tom S.]

I like smart kids that are hard workers.
An ancestor was so smart that she got her first degree, before the college opened and before California was a country.
A wizard kid for sure.
We just call her Granny. She invented the toothbrush, taught Magellan how to use the GPS and advised printers to read aloud before running the press.

Not bad - June 12, 970! She beat Columbus and Erikson here!

 

[soFlaNative]

Yeah..... liberal arts degree is the key,, if you can tie your shoes you can get one.

Post up a copy of yours.

Tongue tied.

 

[CH4]

Outstanding! That's quite an achievement, it took me closer to 17 years to finish my doctorate.

 

[GaryS]

I have two. He's right. If her degrees involved math I would be suitably impressed.

Post up a copy of yours.

 

[Doug M.]

The classic liberal arts education is more about learning to think and analyze than anything else. My education of that nature started with a lot of reading of things like Greek mythology as a relatively young kid, and has stood me well as a lawyer.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Yeah..... liberal arts degree is the key,, if you can tie your shoes you can get one.

Probably true for an adult...Much more difficult as an eight year old, even more still with core classes that are required outside of a major....Some of these classes will be highly difficult such as trigonometry and advanced algebra.

 

[shell627]

Yeah..... liberal arts degree is the key,, if you can tie your shoes you can get one.

Who xxxxx in your Cheerios?

 

[WardenRoss]

I'm impressed!


It's the latest in a long line of educational achievements for the graduate, who started dual enrollment for high school courses at just 8-years-old before earning her associate's degree in psychology from the College of Lake County at age 10 and her bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Excelsior College at age 12.

17-Year-Old Chicago Girl Graduates with Doctoral Degree

Thanks for posting this. The PhD is the gold standard for higher education. What an accomplishment!

With all the bad news around us, this is refreshing to hear.


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[GaryS]

PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper.

Seriously, they are not all created equal.

 

[sigp220.45]

What a great achievement for this young woman! I wish her the best in what I'm sure will be a bright future.

 

[Rustyt1953]

She and her family must be floating on air.

 

[llowry61]

Liberal Arts or not, she is doing something right. Good for her I am sure she will accomplish many more things in life.

 

[Rustyt1953]

PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper.

Seriously, they are not all created equal.

No snarcasm intended but you seem perturbed by her earning a PhD.

May I ask why?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Show me the tough, courageous, kind and wise kids...

I have been researching her and she checks off all those boxes.

 

[sigp220.45]

This thread is simultaneously a new high and a new low for this forum.

 

[Sam D]

This thread is simultaneously a new high and a new low for this forum.

Proves not all kids sit home in front of a TV playing video games, or has their face buried in a cell phone.


I know I'd be busting at the seams if one of my kids had her credentials.

 

[WardenRoss]

This thread is simultaneously a new high and a new low for this forum.

Proves not all kids sit home in front of a TV playing video games, or has their face buried in a cell phone.


I know I'd be busting at the seams if one of my kids had her credentials.

Speaking of "busting at the seams"...

My oldest son is a Criminologist. He was in college for a total of eleven-years to get that doctorate. All while being married with two kids. Couldn't be more proud.



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[MelvinWalker]

No snarcasm intended but you seem perturbed by her earning a PhD.

May I ask why?

There are STILL many core mathematics that have to be fulfilled before the major is completed and the degree granted. That goes for ANY degree....Fairly advanced algebra and trig.

Again, it's what I said earlier....And I have a late 1980's liberal arts degree that I have left off my resume' because it means nothing now....There were and are parts of the core education portion that are not basket weaving.

 

[Rustyt1953]

^^^^^

I don't recall directing my query at you.

 

[rwsmith]

I think....

^^^^^

I don't recall directing my query at you.

I think Mr. MelvinWalker was reinforcing your point than no advanced degree is a cake walk.

 

[Onomea]

Snarcasm! A new word for me:

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[CajunBass]

Well, I'm 71 years old and I can't spell PDH, so I'm pretty impressed.

 

[TXBryan]

Earning a masters or doctoral degree isn't about how much math one has to take. Sure, the classroom has something to do with it but at it's core graduate degrees are about formulating an original hypothesis, testing it, and defending your results and conclusions.

Reasoning and an ability to finish what you start are the hallmarks of graduate degrees. My PhD happens to be in a scientific field but the classroom stuff was less than half the effort. Publishing a peer reviewed piece of scientific work was the real deal. She did that, and having a freshly-minted 18-year old at home, my son, I can hardly imagine the hard work and dedication this fine young lady has behind her at her tender young age.

I spent nine years in college and a year of post-doc work before I was forced to work.

Bryan