By the time most kids graduate high school, each one of these child prodigies had earned a college degree. Some were launching into university-level studies while their peers were still playing tag in elementary school.
These are the stories of 14 brilliant children who launched their academic careers at an early age.
Michael Kearney, now 32, became the youngest college grad in history when he earned an anthropology degree at 10. He taught college classes before he could drive.
Source: New York Times, Boston.com
Jeremy Shuler, 12, just started his freshman year studying engineering at Cornell University. He could read English and Korean before he was 2 years old.
Source: AP
Sho Yano earned his bachelor's degree at Loyola University at age 12 — and it only took him three years. Then, at 21, he earned his MD from the University of Chicago.
Source: Chicago Tribune
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