B.U. To Open Accelerated High School for Gifted Students

By Meg Sommerfeld

Boston University will open a private high school in the fall of 1993 that will require students to complete their first year of college coursework during their senior year, university officials announced last week.

Boston University President John R. Silber said the school will fill an educational void by giving academically talented students access to an accelerated curriculum on the campus of a large university.

"Today we don't offer, for the most part, anything more in the four years of high school than we used to offer in the first two years,'' said Mr. Silber. "We waste some of the most creative years of...