Indian-American boy genius wants to ace medicine

He has been accepted to two prestigious university campuses. Tanishq Abraham, a native of Sacramento in California, has been accepted to University of California (UC) Davis and received a regents scholarship to UC Santa Cruz. He is yet to decide in which university he will enrol. “I think I’ll be 18 when I get my MD (medical degree),” Abraham was quoted as saying by CBC Sacramento tv station.

He said he is just an ordinary kid who plays video games and not just microscopes and just likes to learn. Creating a record of sorts, he surprised one and all by graduating from a California college with three associate degrees in maths, science and foreign language studies last year at the age of 11. 

Home-schooled since the age of seven, he passed a state exam in March in 2014 that certified he had met the appropriate academic standards to receive his high school diploma. Abraham joined MENSA, the prominent high IQ society, when he was only four-years-old. His mother, Taji Abraham, a veterinary doctor said he has always been ahead of the class. 

Abraham’s parents had migrated to the US from Kerala. His father Bijou is a software engineer. Tanishq said some of the students at the college “were intimidated” by him but a lot of others “were really happy” to have a kid in their classes. He graduated with three associate degrees from the college.