Tanishq has even received a letter from President Obama lauding his accomplishment
A genius can make the impossible into the possible and Tanishq Abraham is one of them. Little Tanishq has accomplished more at age 10 than many students do twice his age.
The Sacramento, California, native received his high school diploma last weekend, becoming one of the youngest ever to graduate high school in the United States, reports ABC News.
Home schooled since the age of 7, Tanishq passed a state exam in March that certified that he had met the appropriate academic standards to receive his diploma.
“It wasn’t easy because of the bureaucracy, but I have put a lot of hard work into this and I am very happy that I am finally graduating high school,” Tanishq told ABC News.
Tanishq is powering ahead, scoring well on the SATs and finishing up the community college classes he has been taking since he was 7 years old. “I am going to finish my community college by almost next semester and then I will have my associate’s degree, after that I will transfer to university,” he said to ABC News.
Tanishq says he would like to transfer to UC Davis to study medicine. “It would be nice if I could go to a place like MIT, it would be really great but I am so young so I can’t stay in the dorms over there,” he said.
In kindergarten, Tanishq says he realised he had a special gift.
He could read books that were meant for second and third graders, He was also able to do math like second and third graders. “I actually like to learn, I guess it just comes more naturally to me than to others,” Tanishq said.
His mother Taji Abraham says she decided to home school her son because he was too far advanced for his grade level, and that other students had begun to tease him and steal his belongings.
Taji said she was nervous at first about her son sharing a college classroom with students twice his age. “It was a little scary for us, the first couple of times I was there with him, but going through the first two classes it gave me the confidence that he could handle it,” she said.
Tanishq even received a letter from President Obama lauding his accomplishment.
“Congratulations on your graduation. This special occasion is the culmination of years of study, and I am pleased to join your family and friends in celebrating this milestone,” it read.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
