Jun 9, 2021
If anyone deserves to be celebrating the end of the school year, it’s
Mike Wimmer. The kid from Salisbury, North Carolina, just graduated from Concord Academy High School with a 5.45 GPA and was the valedictorian for the class of 2021. And a week before that? He graduated from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College with a 4.0 GPA and an associate degree. And did we mention he’s only 12 years old?
Mike was dual enrolled and decided to take extra classes during the pandemic, finishing two years of high school and two years of college in just one year. His photographic memory and the fact that he’s a genius helped him get it all done, but he says he worked at a comfortable pace and still had plenty of time to play and socialize with other kids.
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Mike Wimmer, a 12-year-old prodigy from Salisbury, North Carolina, is set to graduate from Concord Academy High School with a 5.45 grade point average and from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College with a 4.0 GPA. (Shutterstock)
SALISBURY, NC Child prodigies only come so often. There s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stevie Wonder, and a few others who have throughout history accomplished an unprecedented amount at their age.
Mike Wimmer of Salisbury, North Carolina, is among the latest to put his name among the historic greats. The 12-year-old boy is set to graduate from high school and college before the end of May, a number of news outlets, including CNN and WCNC, have reported.
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Mike Wimmer, a 12-year old boy from North Carolina, USA, used the pandemic to his advantage and will be graduating from high school and college in May.
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Many people used the lockdown for self-development, learning more about DIY, and taking time to read and cook, but this young man ( boy doesn t seem appropriate considering his accomplishments) took it a whole leap further by completing four years of high school and a two year associate s degree all in one year!
According to CNN, this wasn t Mike s plan: The student was taking dual enrollment classes and realised that at the pace he was going, he just needed a few more classes to get his associate s degree by his high school graduation.