OK... so noone has responded yet...
Let's look at this objectively, the first two kids are a doc with an internship at Reed and an architect... I'm duly impressed.
The second two went to second or third tier schools and are moving on to similar level schools for grad school... meh.
Is it really better to accelerate and go to second tier schools vs waiting a couple of years and going to elite schools. The ivy's don't offer scholarships but duke and wustl and chicago and others do... I don't believe a gifted kid is well served at a commuter campus or a second tier school.
There are exceptions... Terry Tao went to Flinders... and then onto UCLA... but if you want to follow that course you need to be very savvy about opportunities and mentorship. It can work... but more often I have heard about clearly gifted kids becoming accountants or microsoft certified professionals at an eye poppingly young age and that is just a horrible waste of potential. This family seems to be somewhere in between...
