Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
I applaud this family, and am glad for Ahaan&#x27;s sake that he isn&#x27;t just shipping himself off to college, but is going to still have his support structure.<p>I was homeschooled, along with my two sisters, my entire educational career until college.  We all started taking college classes early, my older sister correspondence at 14, my twin and I correspondence at 15.  All of us took classes at local colleges before starting &#x27;real college&#x27;.  All of us scored high on our ACTs, all of us got scholarships to college.<p>My parents didn&#x27;t really push us, we were just smart.  We had childhoods, I was a starter on the basketball team, and played college soccer for a year.  I also read 10+ books a week, played way, way too much Civilization and Total Annihilation,  and did plenty of volunteer work, especially at our local public access station.<p>For my sisters, going to and living at &#x27;real college&#x27; worked out well, they both succeeded in their own ways (my older sister graduated with two masters a few days after she turned 21, my twin sister received a lot of recognition from professionals in her field before graduating, was salutatorian, etc), whereas I didn&#x27;t do so well being away from home and the support structure.  I&#x27;m lazy, and I thought could just not do assignments I didn&#x27;t want to and do well enough on other assignments to make up for it.  Long story short, my GPA dropped enough to lose my scholarship, and I decided that the private college experience wasn&#x27;t worth borrowing tens of thousands of dollars for.<p>So I moved home, finished my bachelors from the state university in town.  Snagged an internship and then got a job offer from that company, essentially during my junior year for a full time job, contingent on finishing school.<p>My point in typing up this story is not to say that I am or was awesome.  My point is that I am pretty sure that Ahaan Rungta is a pretty smart kid, his parents probably pushed him less than you think, and that as long as he and his family figure out how to navigate the maturity journey, he&#x27;ll be fine.