Current Events > Kansas teen will get high school and Harvard diplomas in the same month

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-teen-will-get-high-school-harvard-diplomas-same-month-n953061

A 16-year-old Kansas boy will soon earn his high school diploma and a few days later he'll travel to Harvard to collect his bachelor's degree.

Ulysses High School senior Braxton Moral will attend both commencement ceremonies in May, becoming the only student to successfully pursue a four-year high school degree and a bachelor's degree from Harvard at the same time, The Hutchinson News reported.

Harvard has changed the rules, Braxton's father Carlos Moral said, so his son will be "the one and only" reaching that milestone. Braxton Moral will be 17 when he gets his diplomas.

Carlos Moral said they began to realize their son was special when he was in the third grade.

"They told us: 'You need to do something. He's not just gifted. He's really, really gifted,'" he said.

Braxton Moral skipped the fourth grade.

The Ulysses school district allowed him to take some high school classes while he was still in middle school. Before high school he took a class offered at Fort Hays State University. Then he was admitted into Harvard.

Braxton Moral simultaneously studied at the high school and the Harvard Extension School. The program typically serves adults who work and can't attend classes on campus full time.

Ulysses High School math teacher Patsy Love served as the proctor for the Harvard program, administering Moral's tests in Kansas. Moral spent the summer before his junior year at Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"We constantly are monitoring Braxton to make sure he is not too overwhelmed," said Julie Moral, Braxton Moral's mother. "No achievement is worth him being unhappy."

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All I can think of when I read these stories is how utterly fucked up these kids' social lives must be
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

All I can think of when I read these stories is how utterly fucked up these kids' social lives must be

Probably gets more girls than you tbh
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what's his next step? is he going to have a full college experience, and get a master's or something or just start working? Or ride this accomplishment into his 40s and do nothing with his life

There's a high school named Harvard now?

How tf did he get accepted to Harvard without a HS diploma? Serious question.

Sounds like a crock of shit to me.
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Hopefully he goes somewhere with this and doesn't end up like the Unabomber or Lord Voldemort
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TheDarkCircle posted...

what's his next step? is he going to have a full college experience, and get a master's or something or just start working? Or ride this accomplishment into his 40s and do nothing with his life

It says in the article that politics is his end game.
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Vicious_Dios posted...

It says in the article that politics is his end game.

Democratic President Braxton Moral in 2042
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Doom_Art posted...

Vicious_Dios posted...

It says in the article that politics is his end game.

Democratic President Braxton Moral in 2042

I'd vote for him, depending on his policies.
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Maybe he wanted to go to both schools but why? Sounds like a waste of time, should have just allowed him to focus on the higher studies.
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one more
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Probably will be a useless POS in the future.
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Good on him. Now his first job won't have to be a super stressful warehouse job or customer service service. He will work a job he enjoys and make good money.

ncsonic posted...

Maybe he wanted to go to both schools but why? Sounds like a waste of time, should have just allowed him to focus on the higher studies.

Maybe he wanted the higher studies but still wanted to attend school with people his own age as well?
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I had like 40 college credits by the time i graduated high school, but thats just because my school offered a lot of dual credit. I can't imagine actually having done a full degree at the same time in high school.
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