13-Year-Old Minnesota Boy Set To Graduate From College

A 13-year-old boy from Minnesota will soon earn his bachelor's degree from college with a major in physics and a minor in math.

  • Elliott Tanner is studying at the University of Minnesota.
  • His goal: to be a high-energy theoretical physicist then eventually a professor of physics.
  • Tanner's mom says he started reading and doing math at age 3. High school only took him two years to complete.
  • Then he started taking college classes when he was 9.
  • Tanner has also already been accepted into the University of Minnesota's Physics Ph.D. program. 
  • He told NBC News that physics is one of his "favorite things to do."
  • What was your biggest accomplishment by the age of 13?

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