Meet Jeremy Shuler, a home-schooled kid from Grand Prairie, Texas, who is officially Cornell's youngest student on record.
While 12 might sound mighty young for college, Jeremy's parents, both aerospace engineers, said he was actually "intellectually ready for college" at the ripe old age of 10, The Associated Press reports. "From the beginning, he was physically advanced, very strong," his mother said.
When Jeremy was just 15 months old, he already knew the alphabet, his mom said. By the time he hit 21 months, he was reading books in English and Korean on his own. By age 6, he'd moved moved onto calculus.
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"It's risky to extrapolate, but if you look at his trajectory and he stays on course, one day he'll solve some problem we haven't even conceived of," said Cornell engineering dean Lance Collins. “That's pretty exciting."
Jeremy's parents moved up to Ithaca, New York, with him for college, and Jeremy is settling in well — though he said the classes "are kind of easy so far."
