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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConnecticut School Shooting: Adam Lanza Attended College Classes as 16-Year-Old
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and six adults in a rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, took six classes at Western Connecticut State University in 2008 and 2009, beginning when he was just 16, and had a grade point average of 3.26.
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According to Paul Steinmetz, Director of University of Relations at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Lanza started at the school in the summer of 2008, took a couple classes that fall and then in the spring and summer of 2009.
A 16 year old attending classes rare, not unique, Steinmetz said.
He said that some high school students sign up for classes at the college if they are particularly good in some subject. He said the school has probably a few 16-year-olds every semester.
Lanza took courses in computer science, such as website design, the computer language called BASIC, and data modeling, as well as in philosophy, American history and economics.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/connecticut-school-shooting-adam-lanza-attended-college-classes/story?id=17992396
larkrake
(1,674 posts)Thats a huge red flag.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Indeed BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Not everyone who wants to learn a little coding is going for a degree in computer science to make a career of it and write a Photoshop killer or what have you.
Different languages for different purposes.
hunter
(38,325 posts)So what?
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Possibly not, since Danbury is so close and he was probably living at home.
It explains the language in the divorce settlement about supporting Adam's college expenses.
But yes, an acquaintance who got a BS at 17 is reasonably sane.
hunter
(38,325 posts)...there wasn't much counseling.
There were forms my high school administrators had to sign, a quick meeting with an admissions officer, and then I remember sitting in a classroom with a couple of other kids getting a half-day "succeeding in college for minors" course along with a pile of forms our parents or guardians had to sign.
We were assigned advisors, but I don't remember much more than cursory meetings with him, mostly to get papers signed.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)loved puppies.
Oh, and having to learn BASIC? No wonder he wound up killing people.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Our son took chemistry at UCR one summer because he couldn't "fit it in" in his high school curriculum because of his other classes & sports. He preferred giving up his summer & getting credit for it without having to waste time at high school to take it.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)according to his aunt. There was a dispute with his high school, as yet no details I've seen.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)She took a college level survey class on World History. She's currently enrolled in a local college biology class since she's gifted. She's averaging a 100.5% in the class so I presume she'll get an A there too. I'm guessing there are 2 more classes she'll take this summer - she's planning on an economics class and a US government class.
What's the point? That gifted kids are going to be mass murderers??