15-year-old girl starts (freshman) year at Penn 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 began her Ivy League career when classes started at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this month. Exline said she does not really notice the age gap between herself and her 17- and 18-year-old peers－and neither do they. "I didn't tell people (right off the bat) that I was 15," she said.
"A lot of people were pretty surprised." At 8 years old, 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. Exline excels at math and science and is interested in (politics), so she enrolled in a program that will award her degrees from both the (engineering) and liberal arts schools when she graduates. "Her (motivation, discipline) and maturity provided clear evidence that, despite her age, she was ready to ... thrive in Penn's (rigorous) academic environment," Eric Kaplan, interim dean of admissions, said.
There have been much younger college students: Jessica Meeker enrolled at Penn State two months before her 13th birthday, graduating in 2004 at age 16. Exline's mother, Chyrese, said her (concerns about) her daughter's freshman year are probably no different from any other parent's. "We (did our best) to prepare her," she said.
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