Reflecting about the difficulty of achieving adequate challenge for the most outlying of the outliers: I'm not the PG member of my family, so admission to a competitive STEM grad program did finally teach me (sort of) some work/study skills. But my PG sib never did encounter an educational setting where study skills were necessary, even radically accelerated +8 years. (My mom to PG sib: "Don't you need to study for (PhD) qual(iying exam)s for tomorrow?" Sib, 20 minutes later: "All done, Mom." Aces them, of course.)

I think the issues with needless volume (aka, busywork) were probably less with STEM subjects back then...I hope they still are! Otherwise, my conceptual, non-memorizing children will be equally disappointed with college.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...