Mississippi: 15-year-old with master’s degree prepares to attend law school

A 15-year-old Mississippi boy is reportedly getting ready to begin regulation college later this yr and has the possibility to change into one of many youngest folks ever to acquire a juris doctorate.

James “Jimmy” Chilimigras took the regulation college entrance examination final yr when he was simply 14 and scored a 174, the very best tally in his dwelling state, Alabama and Louisiana, in accordance with a report from the information station WLOX, which covers his dwelling city of Bay St Louis, Mississippi.

Jimmy, who holds bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in accounting from the web, non-profit Western Governors College, instructed WLOX he’s giving himself till Might to decide on which regulation college he’ll attend. However, he made it clear: “I’m going to be regulation college in August – that’s going to be in particular person, in order that’s attention-grabbing, [and] I’m actually wanting ahead to it, really.”

Legislation college within the US sometimes takes three years to finish. If Jimmy finishes his research in that time-frame, he could be one of many world’s youngest regulation college graduates, in accordance with a listing compiled by the historical past and tradition web site oldest.org.

The eighth-youngest regulation college graduate on the planet was Kelly Yang of China, who completed at Harvard College in 2005 when she was 20. Oldest.org says the globe’s youngest recognized regulation college graduate is Stephen Baccus of Florida, who accomplished his research on the College of Miami at age 16 in 1986.

Some on oldest.org’s record didn’t in the end pursue careers as attorneys. Yang went on to change into a South China Morning Put up columnist, and Baccus later determined to work as a neurobiology professor.

Jimmy’s dad and mom, John and Erin Chilimigras, instructed WLOX that they realized early on that their son was very smart. He spoke in full sentences when he was solely two years previous, and he obtained a diploma from St John Paul the Nice highschool in Bay St Louis on the unusually early age of 12.

“We at all times knew he was vivid, however I don’t assume we anticipated he would accomplish a lot so quick,” Erin Chilimigras stated to WLOX.

In response to what John Chilimigras instructed WLOX, that isn’t to say every part got here simply to his son. Jimmy struggled with studying comprehension, as an example, regardless of his curiosity in studying, the boy prodigy’s father recounted.

“We needed to have some exterior assist to assist him diagnose and after they labored via plan of determining how his thoughts labored,” John Chilimigras added in his remarks to WLOX.

Jimmy defined his trajectory by saying he merely likes studying and difficult himself, and his dad and mom have been devoted to encouraging his curiosity in doing that.

“After I did effectively at one thing, we saved shifting up, so it wasn’t simple,” Jimmy stated. “My dad and mom did an excellent job holding me challenged.”