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9-year-old declares Hong Kong uni "too easy"

A nine-year-old mathematics prodigy has become Hong Kong’s youngest undergraduate, waltzing through his first day at university saying classes were too easy. March Boedihardjo, an Indonesian-Chinese boy resident in Hong Kong, was accepted by Hong Kong’s Baptist University to study for a master’s degree after gaining straight As in entrance A-level exams usually taken at 17 or 18.

“It was too easy,” Boedihardjo told reporters after attending a convocation ceremony in a pint-sized black-gown and his first day of classes on Tuesday, adding that he’d already learnt the subject matter a year or two ago.

According to Reuters the university has designed a five-year programme for the child, but it has stirred controversy among some education experts who say he might experience stunted personal and social development as a result.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .