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Aug 30, 2007 6:59 pm US/Eastern
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15-Year-old Genius Moves Into Penn
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
Kids her age are still underclassman in High School, but one Coloradoan is years ahead, starting college at an Ivy League school in Philadelphia.
Brittney Exline, a record-setting teen-genius was as anxious as any other incoming freshman on the campus of University of Pennsylvania.
The only visible difference is her age. Exline is only 15.
"I've been three grades ahead since sixth grade," Exline said.
At 15, Exline is the youngest African American female ever to be accepted into an Ivy League school.
"All of the Ivy League decisions come out on the same day. So I found out I was rejected from Harvard and wait listed at Columbia, but then when I got into Penn it was really exciting," said Exline.
At two years old the Colorado native was reading. She scored 1400 on her SAT's and won scholarships and grants to pay her full tuition at Penn where she enrolled in their school of engineering.
"I'm in a dual degree program called Liberal Arts and Technology," Exline said. "There are so many things I'm interested in that's it's really hard to narrow down what I want to study now."
Math and science are not her only strong point.
She's also fluent in German and with her brains and beauty has won several pageant crowns.
But going Ivy League at such a young age certainly tops Brittney's list of accomplishments. And the young genius admits college isn't just about hitting the books.
"I'm pretty social but I don't want to push myself into anything that would be unhealthy for me at this age."
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