15-year-old starts freshman year at Penn

[Денг Гордон]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>PHILADELPHIA - Brittney Exline is too young to vote, drive a car or go to an R-rated movie, but at the age of just 15 she is beginning her Ivy League career Wednesday when classes start at the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">University of Pennsylvania</span>.</p>

She said she doesn't really notice the age gap between herself and her 17- and 18-year-old peers &mdash; and neither do they.</p>

"I didn't tell people right off the bat that I was 15," Exline said. "A lot of people were pretty surprised."</p>

Exline grew up in Colorado Springs, Colo., where at 8 years she was already in sixth grade. By 13 she had finished high school math. She turned 15 in February and graduated a few months later.</p>

She's not preoccupied with how unique her accomplishments are.</p>

"I wouldn't even really realize that if people didn't tell me," she said.</p>

She excels at math and science and is really interested in politics, so she enrolled in a Penn program that will award her degrees from both the engineering and liberal arts schools when she graduates in 2011.</div></p>

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wasn't there a football player who went to college at 15 too?

 

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I'd be 16, if my parents weren't gay, and agreed with my kindergarten teacher, and let me skip 1st grade.</p>

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@^ Yup, he just got drafted. Out of clemson, IIRC.</p>