Chicago: An exceptional University of Chicago student, Sho Yano, 21, will become the youngest student ever to graduate with a medical degree this week.
Yano, who was a child prodigy, began reading at the age of 2, writing at 3 and was in college by age 9, IB Times reported.
He will graduate on Saturday from the Pritzker School of Medicine, where he also received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and cell biology.
The University of Chicago admitted him in 2003. “I never understood that,” Yano told the Chicago Tribune. “Why would being allowed to challenge yourself be considered more damaging than being totally bored?”
Yano said the newspaper “I probably would have ended up a computer criminal” had he not been accepted into med school.
Telling about the details of Yano’s interview, Joel Schwab, a professor of paediatrics, who was on the admissions committee, said: “I remember interviewing him […] dressed in a little suit, writing everything down on a pad of paper. You couldn’t tell by talking with him that he had his incredible mind.”
Nine years after being accepted, Yano is ready to start a residency in paediatric neurology. The five-year pseudo-apprenticeship follows the 21-year-old’s fascination with the field, after doing a rotation at LaRabida Children’s Hospital that allowed him to treat kids’ neurological ailments.
Yang is currently “preparing for his residency in paediatric neurology.”
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