For Law, it makes sense to graduate at 17

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Cary May Rowe I had just put on my hat and gown. She took a picture of her for her father and sent it back to him in California. Her mom was by her side in front of the Grand Her Canyon her University her arena.

“She was always very serious when she was a kid,” he said. Janelle Law She graduated at age 17 on Friday with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government with an emphasis in law from GCU.

“She didn’t even want to watch ‘Sesame Street.’ She said, ‘They just mess around.'”

Law decided not to mess around with colorful frogs and birds. She was homeschooled in Walnut, California until the sixth grade, but she suffered from academic “boredom” and she attended middle school for two years. So Janelle Law suggested that her community begin taking courses at her college.

“I thought she would choose something fun. She chose an introduction to logic.

“It sounded like fun to me,” Kaley said.

She is the second 17-year-old to earn a bachelor’s degree covered by GCU News in the past 18 months. Shannon Carr will graduate her bachelor’s degree in November 2021. We both learned online and connected by phone earlier this year.

Law began earning community college credits at age 13, earned three associate degrees from Mount San Antonio College, entered GCU at age 16, and had three semesters and 11 left to complete her bachelor’s degree. Only the course remained. She doesn’t consider herself a child prodigy, she thinks she’s just a first-generation graduate of college.

“I know I’m not the smartest, but I know I try my best. I think it’s a big deal to graduate early or whatever,” says Lowe. said. “I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but many people do.

“There have certainly been hard times and struggles. During COVID, I struggled with not having friends in my class or meeting people I was compatible with.”

Law said he’s been able to make friends since the online classes started at GCU. At GCU, I found professors to be familiar with online teaching.

“I’m pretty quiet. Most of the time I’m pretty reserved. I’d say I’m pretty ambitious,” she said. “I really like critical thinking and logic, but I’m not keen on public speaking.”

Former swimmer says doctors told her father Williamhad a tumor in his spine and needed surgery.

“It worked out. He was able to walk. Then a few weeks after the surgery, he had a blood clot and had to be rushed to the hospital by ambulance,” she said. The experience left him unable to walk and permanently disabled. He is paralyzed from the waist down.”

She started learning from him.

“He was a big role model. He’s really strong mentally,” she said. “I’m really happy he was able to move on and he didn’t think too hard.”

Her father, who had to miss graduation to stay home with Kaley’s brother, helped solidify her career path.

“That kind of situation makes you want to help other people. I believe that if I do something, I can help injured people.

That process will begin immediately. She is about to enroll in a graduate program in political science at the United Nations and global policy studies at Rutgers University, and if she were to enter law school now, she would graduate before taking the bar exam at age 21, she said. rice field.

“Today is bittersweet,” said Janelle Law. “She will be very far away.”

After being recognized by the Arizona legislature on Thursday and before stepping into the arena alone on Friday, Kaley Law regretted not living in a dorm and having no experience on a college campus. I said I could.

“There’s no looking back. I’m on board. I’m hoping to make up for it at Rutgers,” she said.

She gave the following advice to those looking to finish college early:

“Be yourself and keep going your own way, even if it’s not the same as everyone else’s.”

After all, some people love logic more than Big Bird.

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