His writing may have been really low. Foreign-born Asians normally blow it completely off.
Here are his scores from the other article: “He said his cumulative SAT score was 1770 (critical reading: 580, math: 620, writing: 570).” I still think at this point the child would be better off being homeschooled or placed in an accelerated program with other bright kids closer to his own age. He’s obviously very smart and when he’s 16, he’d likely have a perfect 2400 and learn from some really brilliant, innovative thinkers at MIT or Stamford. Instead, he’s being pushed to learn in an environment where he’s going to be surrounded by people whose IQ’s are decidedly lower than his own, while learning material for which his brain and maturity may or may not be developmentally ready.