12 year-old boy gets full scholarship to the University of Chicago Medical School

Wow - Prodigy with a capital P!

It's easy to accuse his parents of milking him for fame, or to say that he's gonna miss out on his childhood and what not. Bah -- childhood is overrated and over-romanticised, usually abused for comparison with some cynical idea of the present. In any case, although I think his folks are strict with him and his sister it looks like the decisions to go through college and med school at such a young age were voluntarily made by the kid. As long as he wants to, why not?