What could we have done differently?
HG/EG son attended rigorous private prep school, took 10 AP exams, scored 5 on 9 of them, and then went to an "academically rigorous" private college. He entered with 40+ credits and will graduate in 2.5 years. Currrently 20, he recently revealed that he felt very different in middle school and high school because there were only 2 or 3 students on campus he really related to intellectually. And today he has revealed that college is "markedly less rigorous" than high school was, and the only stimulating people are the professors. He is hungry to be with people truly interested in learning as opposed to good workers and grade grubbers. There just are not many such people. Where on earth should he have gone to college??
He already has a job for after graduation, but at such time as he wants to go to grad school, I don't want a repeat experience of disappointment and frustration.
