Today, British media has been buzzing with the story of 12 year-old Xavier Gordon-Brown who has now become Britain’s youngest University student. Daily Mail noted that at the age of 8, he got A* in his Maths GCSE. At the time he passed his GCSE which was in 2009, he was the youngest ever student to gain an A* in maths, and could recite 2,000 digits of Pi. A year after his GCSE success he passed his A-levels.
Xavier’s interest in numbers started at an early age. He could do double-digit mental arithmetic before starting school and he knew his times tables before he was four.
He only turned 12 last month and is now studying abstract structures, vector calculus and Newtonian mechanics in his spare time!
Because he is still so young, he has to be accompanied to his Monday evening lectures by his mother. He travels with his mother to Open University lectures in East Grinstead two to three times a month.
He may still be too young to join Facebook, but is already studying for a degree in maths.
This case reminds me of the case of a 15 year-old Nigerian girl who gained admission to study Neuroscience at Harvard University last year.
Saheela Ibraheem, who was then a student at Wardlaw Hartridge School in New Jersey not only gained admission into Harvard, but into 13 of the 14 schools she applied to. They include Harvard, Princeton, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Stanford, Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and more.
Saheela skipped the sixth and ninth grades and by high school, she switched from public to private.
Imagine having admissions into such an impressive range of premier institutions to choose from! Wow, simply wow!
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