16-Year-Old Set To Graduate From Kansas High School And Harvard University

16-Year-Old Set To Graduate From Kansas High School And Harvard University

December 28, 20186:35 PM ET
Braxton Moral is scheduled to receive a high school diploma from Ulysses High School and a bachelor's degree from Harvard. "It's not as hard as you think; it's just an efficient use of time," he says. Courtesy of Julie Moral hide caption
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A 16-year-old is scheduled to graduate from high school in Kansas and Harvard University within the span of two weeks.
Braxton Moral, a senior at Ulysses High School, plans to attend the school's commencement May 19, then the university's ceremonies later in the month, reported The Hutchinson News.
"I'm not any different; I just do a little thing on the side," he told NPR. "I try to play it down at high school because if I talk about it, it becomes a divide."
Moral was born in Kansas, the youngest of four children. In some ways, he is just like any other teenager. He loves video games and movies. He plays tennis and goes to church.
But when he was 3 years old, he could "entertain people" at volleyball games by calculating the score's difference in points, his mother, Julie Moral, told NPR. People also said he had a big vocabulary. Still, she didn't notice that her son was gifted.
By second grade, he was getting bused to a different building with third- and fourth-graders for English and math, she said. Then he skipped the fourth grade.
As he got older, he started to become depressed. He was asking questions like, "Why do I exist?" and "What's my purpose?" she said.
His parents took him to a community college for testing. "They thought the machine was broken," his father, Carlos Moral, told The Hutchinson News. "He was like off the scale, beyond an associate's degree."

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