But fast track is no guarantee. Michael Kearney made the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest college student, graduating from the University of South Alabama at 10 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. Though at 14 he earned a master's in biochemistry from Middle Tennessee State University with a thesis focusing on cancer research, it was after being rejected for graduate enrollment by Duke, Emory and Vanderbilt universities. Age in itself isn't necessarily impressive, Harvard Law School Dean of Admissions Joyce Curll explained. Law in particular is a field where life experience weighs as heavily as anything else.
Business is another.
People don't need to be in a hurry. Yes, 'they' should. By 6, he was mastering algebra and hating school. We were doing these speed tests, like '2 plus 2' . . . I would get half of them wrong.