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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 Ivy¹ 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 enrolled² in a program that will award her degrees from both the engineering and liberal arts schools when she graduates.

"Her motivation, discipline and maturity³ provided clear evidence that, despite her age, she was ready to ... thrive in Penn's rigorous academic environment," Eric Kaplan, interim⁴ dean of admissions, said.

There have been much younger college students: Jessica Meeker⁵ 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 freshman⁶ year are probably no different from any other parent's. "We did our best to prepare her," she said.

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