16-year-old Kansas teen earns high school and Harvard degrees at the same time - Sensationalist Headlines

https://ktla.com/2018/12/28/16-year-old-kansas-teen-earns-both-high-school-and-harvard-degrees-at-the-same-time/ 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 “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. 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 is on track to graduate from the Bachelor of Liberal Arts program, with a major government and a minor in English, said Harry Pierre, associate director of communications for Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education. Braxton Moral said he hopes to attend Harvard Law School next. “Politics is end game for me,” he said, though he’s still too young to vote.

Good for him. Remember his name, just in case he crops up again in a couple of years.

That's fine and all, but I hope he's truly happy in the end.

Pursuing his Harvard degree didn't stop Moral from having a typical high school experience — he participated in debate, forensics, the Scholars Bowl, prom and the tennis team. "We constantly are monitoring Braxton to make sure he is not too overwhelmed. No achievement is worth him being unhappy," Julie Moral said, The Hutchinson News reported. I'm not too worried about the chap. He seems to be super gifted and also has the good fortune of not having overbearing parents that try to live through him; his aspirations seem like his, not his parents', and I'm happy for him.

I hope he’s a smug little asshole so at least I can feel superior in some way.

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reading stories like this saddens me that I'll never get the opportunity to go to a public university in my state due to mishandling

This reminds of of a dude that was a former Navy SEAL with 100+ combat missions and a silver and bronze star, a physician with an MD from Harvard Medical School, a mathematics degree and he's also a Nasa 2017 astronaut candidate, . And on top of that he's 34 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim

Pursuing his Harvard degree didn't stop Moral from having a typical high school experience — he participated in... forensics Forensics in high school?

I had a forensics class in my high school, it's just another type of science class really

Cool, so he did some high school courses in middle school, freeing up slots in his high school schedule to do university courses Still, despite that he must have been busy 24/7 holy shit

And of course probably a Facepunch user. Knowing the stories people tell in this forum sometimes he would fit in well here.

Lets hope the politics doesn't knock him down a few pegs, I can't imagine being the youngest harvard grad and getting beaten by Cletus McRicherton and a party apparatus designed to destroy you will feel that great.

And his parents are still screaming at him to be an accountant.

Nobody wants to be a chartered accountant! Nobody!

You may not like it, but this is what peak brainy boi looks like.

What does he look like?

The first of many gold digging whores that will reduce this man to nothing but the carbon from whence he came.

Speech and debate where I’m from.

Wait until his political views become public, then he can be dichotomized and villainized by half of society.

So you're saying there's a guy who could come up with his own version of the navy seal copypasta and it'd be 100% true? Sweet.

Yeah but there are people that get to some random point in life, something hits them and they hit a huge depression over being super gifted or for a reason similar to that. Either at random, or just because they think a bit ahead and like, have some nihilistic thought or something.

He enjoys World of Warcraft and plays other video games on his free time. Maybe he just enjoys the grind so much that he grinds irl too

ha big dummy doesn't even know what order to do schools in

What the fuck that's fucking real. He served in the same platoon as Chris Kyle https://i.redd.it/kkmfqym026iz.jpg Straight from NASA.gov https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/kim.jpg

This dude is gonna be commanding our Space Force one day!