Add this to the chronicles of precocious prodigies of Indian-origin. And the way he's going, pencil him in as a putative first Indian-American President of the United States (POTUS) in 2040. Indian-American pre-teen Tanishq Abraham graduated from a California community college on Thursday at age 11, continuing an astonishing academic career that saw him enroll in high school and college courses when he was only six and seven, after he and his sister Tiara had become the youngest siblings to join the high-IQ society Mensa when they were four.
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Now Abraham ?has been accepted to University of California (UC) Davis and received a regents scholarship to UC Santa Cruz. He is yet to decide in which university he will enroll. "I think I'll be 18 when I get my MD (medical degree)," Abraham was quoted as saying by CBC Sacramento television station yesterday.?
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The Sacromento-born siblings are children of Bijou Abraham, a software engineer, and his wife Dr Taji Abraham, a doctor of veterinary medicine, who matter-of-factly told a gawking media at the graduation ceremony that Tanishq was "a few years ahead even when he was in kindergarten and it just went from there".
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Just how much ahead was evident at the commencement ceremony of the 600-strong class at the American River College, where the next youngest graduating student was twice as old as Tanishq. "This isn't much of big thing for me ... some of them were a little intimidated you know," the pint-sized Tanishq told a local TV station.
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The Abraham siblings have been making news for several years now, ever since their parents discovered they were advanced beyond their toddler age to the extent they became members of Mensa Society at four. To join Mensa, one needs to score in or above the 98 percentile on a Mensa-approved standardized IQ test. Tanishq scored 99.9 percentile and Tiara — who is nine now and also enrolled in the American River — scored 99 percentile on the test.
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At five years old, the Abraham's enrolled Tanishq into math courses offered by Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), which he finished in less than six months. At six, he took online high school and college level classes in subjects such as chemistry, paleontology, biology, and geology, and at seven, he enrolled at American River and completed courses in geology & astronomy, earning As in both courses and emerging as the top student in both classes.
"The assumption is that he's the all-time youngest," American River College spokesman Scott Crow told NBC News. "But we don't have all the archives to completely confirm. He was definitely the youngest this year."