12-Year-Old Prodigy to Graduate NC High School With Perfect GPA 4.0, Named Valedictorian Like any other 12-year-old, Mike Wimmer is ardent about video games, race cars, and playing sports with his friends. Unlike most students his age, though, Wimmer will be graduating from high school in less than a month—years ahead of your typical preteen. Not only is he set to graduate from Concord Academy in North Carolina on May 21, he was also named valedictorian of his high school and has a perfect GPA of 4.0, no less. The young upstart from Salisbury has always been a fast learner, he says, soaking up information rapidly through his iPad starting at the age of 18 months.