Two years early.

Not even having finished his sophomore year at the city's elite, public Stuyvesant HS, the 15-year-old wunderkind has already secured seats for himself at three of the country's brainiest colleges.

For a while, it was a mailbox flurry of good news.

"I was pretty shocked. I hadn't really pictured myself getting a letter," the brainiac said of his first acceptance -- from Caltech.

But it was the MIT green-light that shot him over the moon.

"That was much more exciting," he gushed. "I had my mom, my sisters and my girlfriend, and they all screamed."

Young says he still hasn't decided which university to attend.

"I'm still totally not sure," he admits. "I flip-flop like every day."

Young's aptitude was obvious from preschool, although he also once read an "Idiot's Guide to World War II" -- when he was in third grade.

His passion for math began at age 2, when he finished a puzzle -- and then did it upside down to make it more challenging.

"He's very intense and driven," said his mom, Lisa Young, who works in the office at the Anderson School for the intellectually gifted on the Upper West Side. "My only reservation is that I wish he could know that he's only going to be a kid once. He'll have plenty of time to be a grown-up."

But Young is impatient, especially with those folks who just don't get math.

"A lot of people have the misconception that it's plugging and chugging," he said. "That's not real math. Real math is basically proving things and solving problems."

Young has already taken every math and science class Stuyvesant has to offer.

"I wasn't sure what classes I'd be able to take next year," said Zach, who attended the private Ethical Culture Fieldston School through fifth grade before switching to the Anderson School in sixth. "I really just applied to college to give myself options."

Zach is a two-time national chess champion who doesn't watch TV or listen to music.

"If I have a choice between math and almost anything else, I choose math," he said.

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1310600&forum_id=1#14979936)

Zachary A. Young is finishing his sophomore year at Stuyvesant High School in New York, but unlike most high school sophomores, Young will be coming to Harvard in the fall as a member of the Class of 2014. He's 15.

Having already exhausted all the math and science courses at his school, Young, a fast-talking math enthusiast, thought he'd give himself some options. So he applied for college—as anyone in his situation would, we suppose—and was accepted to Harvard, MIT, and Caltech.

After visiting MIT and Harvard during MIT's prefrosh weekend, Young decided that he liked us more.

"I was generally much more impressed by Harvard's student body than by MIT's," he said.

In particular, Young enjoyed sitting in on the Math 55b: "Honors Real and Complex Analysis" class while he was visiting, and it'll definitely be a course he will consider taking in the fall, he said.

In his free time, Young said he likes doing math. He challenges himself with proofs and problems from previous math contests. He also has a girlfriend who is a high school sophomore as well, and he said she approved of his decision to go to college at such an early age.

Young said he'll miss the math contests the most when he transitions to college life in the fall, but he won't miss the busy work.

"I'm fed up with high school and how boring and repetitive it can be," Young said. "I'm very excited to try something new...I actually could feel like I'm at home here."

(Harvard Crimson)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1310600&forum_id=1#14979953)

He will die a very lonely sole.

I feel bad for people like this...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1310600&forum_id=1#15039036)

Kid has a future.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1310600&forum_id=1#15084886)