Christian Gahr is a 16 year old college student.
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Freshman Christian Gahr slept in on his first day of senior year and woke to the tweets of his fellow peers complaining about their classes. Luckily he didn’t have to go to school because he had already been admitted to college.
After three years of high school education, California native Gahr was ready to move on and jump-start his college career at 16-years-old.
“I’d just rather go straight to college instead of staying in high school because I knew I was going to be taking five or six AP classes anyway,” Gahr, a biology major, said.
In the fall, he approached his high school counselor about applying to college first semester of his junior year. His counselor had known one other case of a girl who had graduated from high school in three years and moved on to college. With that in mind, Gahr applied to Virginia Tech.
Gahr joined other students across the nation who are applying to college early.
“We’re seeing students finish earlier than in the past. I think because now-a-days we’re seeing students that are taking a lot of dual enrollment credit, AP and IB credit, some of them just really want to get out of high school and start their academic work at a college. It’s a small population,” said Mildred Johnson, director of Undergraduate Admissions.
Gahr became part of that small population in the spring when he received his acceptance letter.
“I was kind of like ‘I’m a junior. I’m probably not as competitive as someone who went through their senior year who have more on their transcript.’ When I got it I was like ‘oh cool now I have the option of not going through senior year’,” Gahr said.
Gahr had already fulfilled Tech’s requirements to apply through his completion of 18 units of high school course work, which included AP classes.
However, it was not an easy decision. For about a week, Gahr considered his options and came to the conclusion that staying would be moving backwards.
While his dad encouraged him to take the opportunity, his mom was a bit more hesitant. She just wanted to attend her son’s graduation ceremony at the end of his senior year.
A version of this article appeared in the Sep 18 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Great to have a Whiz kid at Tech. Wonder why (but glad he did) pick Tech as he grew up in CA.
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What is his major?
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I give him an A+ just for leaving California.
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The article says Biology
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Biology. It's literally the fourth sentence.
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Smart move! Recruit top talent a year before MIT, Harvard, and Stanford can get them. Someone at the top is thinking.
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Dude, Welcome! ("Dude" is a word which conveys endearment and respect among the natives of the Republic of California. I learned that last week in Sociology - or maybe I just sleeping during class and dreamed it. I can't remember.)
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This kid is involved in politics and music along with biology, so he is not a nerd in the classic sense - a la Big Bang Theory. I think 'top talent' describes him better than 'whiz kid' and I suspect we will be seeing his picture on the cover of FORBES and NEWSWEEK in about ten years.
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This makes me feel very good about my decision to attend Tech. Welcome to Virginia Christian
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This makes me feel very good about my decision to attend Tech. Welcome to Virginia Christian.
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Why is it all the good men are either married or gay... or statutorily under age?
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so which looks better on a resume?
1. attending Virginia Tech as a 16 year old
2. attending princeton when you are 19 years old
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About 4,000,000 students started university this year. About 2,000 started at Princeton this year. Let's estimate 4 students started university at 16 this year in the US.
A Princeton freshman is 1 in 2,000. A 16 year old freshman is 1 in a million. If I were an employer, I would hire that one in a million student.
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I heard that Dos Equis is considering him for their new spokes person. Welcome to Tech, Christian
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I know this guy! cool kid!
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