Tuesday, 3 September 2013
INCREDIBLE!!!! Youngest college student ever?Meet the 11-year-old child studying quantum physics!!!!
An 11-year-old child prodigy has started his first
semester in college.
Accepted when he was only 10, Carson Huey-You is
attending Texas Christian University majoring in
quantum physics. The youngster was co-
valedictorian of his senior class and scored a 1770 on
his SAT, speaks Mandarin Chinese and played the
piano in the Admissions Center, according to the
campus newspaper. Though impressive, Huey-You is
not the youngest-ever college student.
Huey-You is so young that he could not apply online,
the software would not accept an applicant born in
2002, TCU360 reported.
Genius: Carson Huey-You, 11, who is studying
quantum physics at TCU
Enrolled in four classes, the whiz kid commutes to
campus with his mother carrying his books as he
shuttles from class to class, according to WFAA.
‘It's not like I'm leaving him here to stay in dorms
and join a fraternity,’ mother Claretta Huey-You told
WFAA.
Huey-You is expected to graduate when he’s 16, a
full year younger than the previous youngest-ever
student at TCU, according to TCU 360. He enrolled in
four classes during his first semester at TCU.
‘‘I’m taking calculus, physics, history and religion.
Those are my four classes,’ Huey-You told CBS DFW.
The young genius could read by age 1, and was doing
pre-algebra by age 5 – he relaxes by doing algebra,
according to CBS DFW.
Professors are already singing his praises.
Big man on campus: Carson Huey-You, 11, walks
with his mother, Claretta Huey-You on campus
‘He’s definitely very talented and also he’s very
serious about his work and he really enjoys it. And
that’s the best that a professor can hope for his
students, right?’ Associate math professor Qao
Zhang said to CBS DFW.
Still adjusting to college, Carson Huey-You told TCU
360 that his first week ‘was overwhelming but
exciting and fun.’
Perhaps motivated by her son taking on college,
Claretta Huey-You plans to return to school to study
nursing, she told TCU 360. The 11-year-old’s brother
is also gifted and expected to graduate high school
when he is 13.
If all goes as planned, Carson Huey-You will have his
college degree before he has his driver’s license.
Though impressive, he isn't the youngest-ever
college student.
That distinction belongs to Michael Kearney.
Kearny graduated San Mateo High School in 1990
when only six-years-old. At age 10 he had earned his
bachelor's degree in anthropology from the
University of South Alabama. His master's degree in
biochemistry was awarded when he was 14-years-
old. Kearney was teaching college at only 17.
Source; dailymail
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