12-year-old gears up for freshman year at Ivy League college
Cornell has had a 14-year-old freshman and an 18-year-old graduate but none younger
Jeremy Shuler in front of a field of Texas bluebonnets this spring. PHOTO: WASHINGTON POST
Twelve-year-old Jeremy Shuler has been accepted at Cornell University making him the youngest student ever to attend the prestigious institution.
“He is a very advanced student for his age who already has demonstrated an incredible ability to learn at the collegiate level,” Cornell’s Engineering Dean Lance Collins said. “While this is highly unusual we feel that with the strong support of his parents — who will be moving here to provide him a place to live and study — and his unusual talents and thirst for knowledge, he will be able to thrive as an engineering student and take advantage of all that Cornell has to offer,” Collins said.
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According to the school’s historian Corey Earle, Cornell has had a 14-year-old freshman and an 18-year-old graduate but none younger. “I think I’ll really enjoy being at Cornell. I’ve been preparing for college for a long time,” Jeremy said.
Jeremy’s mother Harrey Shuler recalled, “When he was 15 months old, Jeremy knew the alphabet and found letters and numbers everywhere — in his pasta, clouds, stars, patterns of marble tiles. It was hard to give him a bath as he kept writing letters and numbers with the shower hose during bath time,” Harrey said.
When he was a year and a half old, he asked his mother about an email she was typing to a friend in Seoul and she offhandedly showed him letters in Korean. The next day he was combining consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables. And, he was reading a book in Korean. By the time he was two-years-old, Jeremy could easily read both Korean and English.
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When he was five, Jeremy was already studying pre-calculus. “His brain is very good at making connections between things that most people might not see,” his father Andy Shuler said. When Jeremy was eight, his father’s job took the family to England for a year. While Andy worked, Harrey and Jeremy travelled around Europe. Jeremy would study the language and culture of Milan, or Brussels, or Glasgow, or Wales and easily picked up geography, history and languages.
“We gave up Wikipedia,” Andy said. “We would just ask Jeremy, What is the capital of Chad? and he would tell us. He’s much smarter than either of us, for sure,” Andy said.
At the young age of ten, Jeremy had reached the limits of what his parents and high school classes could teach him. And so, he took the SAT, scoring better than 99.6 percent of those who took the test that year. He received a perfect 800s in math, physics and chemistry and 750s in world history and Latin. He took AP tests in calculus BC, chemistry, physics C: mechanics, physics C: electricity and magnetism, statistics, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. He got the highest score on each one, earning him a Scholar with Distinction recognition from the College Board.
At Cornell, Jeremy is planning to major in applied and engineering physics with a minor in math. He will be taking physics in mechanics and special relativity, introduction to computing with MATLAB, multivariable calculus and either intermediate Latin or an introduction to linguistics depending on how well he does on his placement test.
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Currently, Jeremy has been working on one of the algorithms used to encode signals based on prime numbers. He came up with a new code that uses a subset of prime numbers to create a simpler algorithm that is potentially more secure.
“This has been a journey of surprises,” Andy said. “I don’t know. He’s going to change. He’s going to be a teenager soon, that’s change enough no matter where you are. I’m just looking forward to his first day of classes. I think he’s going to come back with new ideas in his head — that’s what I love to see,” he said.
This article originally appeared on The Washington Post.
“He is a very advanced student for his age who already has demonstrated an incredible ability to learn at the collegiate level,” Cornell’s Engineering Dean Lance Collins said. “While this is highly unusual we feel that with the strong support of his parents — who will be moving here to provide him a place to live and study — and his unusual talents and thirst for knowledge, he will be able to thrive as an engineering student and take advantage of all that Cornell has to offer,” Collins said.
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According to the school’s historian Corey Earle, Cornell has had a 14-year-old freshman and an 18-year-old graduate but none younger. “I think I’ll really enjoy being at Cornell. I’ve been preparing for college for a long time,” Jeremy said.
Jeremy’s mother Harrey Shuler recalled, “When he was 15 months old, Jeremy knew the alphabet and found letters and numbers everywhere — in his pasta, clouds, stars, patterns of marble tiles. It was hard to give him a bath as he kept writing letters and numbers with the shower hose during bath time,” Harrey said.
When he was a year and a half old, he asked his mother about an email she was typing to a friend in Seoul and she offhandedly showed him letters in Korean. The next day he was combining consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables. And, he was reading a book in Korean. By the time he was two-years-old, Jeremy could easily read both Korean and English.
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When he was five, Jeremy was already studying pre-calculus. “His brain is very good at making connections between things that most people might not see,” his father Andy Shuler said. When Jeremy was eight, his father’s job took the family to England for a year. While Andy worked, Harrey and Jeremy travelled around Europe. Jeremy would study the language and culture of Milan, or Brussels, or Glasgow, or Wales and easily picked up geography, history and languages.
“We gave up Wikipedia,” Andy said. “We would just ask Jeremy, What is the capital of Chad? and he would tell us. He’s much smarter than either of us, for sure,” Andy said.
At the young age of ten, Jeremy had reached the limits of what his parents and high school classes could teach him. And so, he took the SAT, scoring better than 99.6 percent of those who took the test that year. He received a perfect 800s in math, physics and chemistry and 750s in world history and Latin. He took AP tests in calculus BC, chemistry, physics C: mechanics, physics C: electricity and magnetism, statistics, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. He got the highest score on each one, earning him a Scholar with Distinction recognition from the College Board.
At Cornell, Jeremy is planning to major in applied and engineering physics with a minor in math. He will be taking physics in mechanics and special relativity, introduction to computing with MATLAB, multivariable calculus and either intermediate Latin or an introduction to linguistics depending on how well he does on his placement test.
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Currently, Jeremy has been working on one of the algorithms used to encode signals based on prime numbers. He came up with a new code that uses a subset of prime numbers to create a simpler algorithm that is potentially more secure.
“This has been a journey of surprises,” Andy said. “I don’t know. He’s going to change. He’s going to be a teenager soon, that’s change enough no matter where you are. I’m just looking forward to his first day of classes. I think he’s going to come back with new ideas in his head — that’s what I love to see,” he said.
This article originally appeared on The Washington Post.