Most people are 18 years old when they begin their first term at an institution of higher learning. This seems to be a widely accepted age for a person to start to grow up and learn to live on their own. Some people take a bit longer to get a high school education or simply take a gap year before going on.
Then there are those who begin a year or two earlier because they did so well in grade school. When Keith Olbermann began attending Cornell University, he was only 16 years old. I thought that was a very young age (that's younger than I am now) to take such a big step. He was also one of the youngest people to start college (that I'd heard of, anyway), until now.
The school term is just beginning at the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the greatly esteemed Ivy League. One of the incoming freshmen this year is a girl named Brittney Exline, who hails from Colorado Springs, CO.
She's already made several friends while participating in a pre-freshman acclimation program on the university's campus and they all seem to get along rather well. They were all surprised when Brittney revealed that she was only 15 years old.
“She’s really cool for a 15-year-old,” said Gonzalez, who turns 18
later this month. “We were surprised, but I don’t think it’s too
shocking.”
15! Can you believe it? With my background, I certainly can't. Most people around where I live aren't very academically inclined. Many people end up being credit deficient and have to go to adult school, or just drop out. I've always been one to get the best grades possible because I knew that was the way to go somewhere in life, but even I've been slacking off in that department lately.
I'm currently 17 years old and will be 18 when I start college, but I'm not sure I'm completely ready to be out on my own. I still feel like a kid. I can't imagine going through that at 15, I would have died.
Brittney must be pretty strong since she's going to do this and at least she already has friends to help her through it.
Good luck to all those starting college this year and those who are high school seniors, I hope you get in where you want.
Oh, and you know what's even crazier than Brittney's story?
Jessica Meeker enrolled at Penn State two months before her 13th birthday, graduating in 2004 at age 16.
That's insane.
Source: MSNBC
There's a kid that's in medical school at 12. 15 is not the youngest to enter college.
I was 17, and I moved halfway across the country from my dad and halfway around the world from my mom when I started college. It wasn't that bad then. My mom moved across the country just before the end of my sophomore year, and that was a bit more difficult. Of course, I had lots going on at that time, and it was just a bad time to be without my family.
~C
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I turned 17 halfway through my freshman year and one of my sorority sisters had gotten her drivers license a few weeks before school started that year. We were both really young and definately had out party year, but we were by far more mature than any other of the girls that were in our pledge class. And we still are
Oh and my great grandfather graduated from college at the age of 15. I still maintain that I am smarter than he is because we have a lot more history and technology to learn thant he did in the 20s
~M
A kid I go to school with will be graduating this year with us at sixteen. It's kind of ironic that all he really wants to do is study music, but it's also pretty cool because he's really nice and not as stuck up as some people in his position might have been
`lacey
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