UPDATE: Harvard tells Latin Times that Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez has not applied to the university. Read more here.
A typical 11-year-old has many obligations, but college (usually) not one of them. Most 11-year-olds are stressing about the big move to middle school. But for Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez, who is one month shy of 11, college will be one obligation he will be committing to this fall. The young boy, from Michoacán, Mexico, will be going to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez is reportedly planning to study Quantum physics. He also hopes to start his own company to better social networking and technology after graduation.
And if you think the aspiring entrepreneur is merely talented at science and engineering, think again! Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez taught himself English, French and Mandarin Chinese at the age of five. The young boy has rightfully earned the title of a genius -- he was tested and his IQ is between 152-160, which places it in the 99.95th percentile or for a frame of reference, in the same ballpark as Albert Einstein. In fact, the Mexican National Giftedness states, citing the World Health Organization, that a gifted person is an individual that scores more than 130 points on the IQ test.
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Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez reportedly learned how to read by the age of four, completed several levels of education in robotics and mechatronics in Intelirobot Institute of San Luis Potosi, finished high school in three months and is currently a student at the Open System College of Bachelors in the Zamora campus.
Fabiola Álvarez de la Paz revealed in a radio show that her son learned to read quickly and absorbed information, and upon learning of his high IQ, he was removed from school due to bullying.
"He's a boy who questions everything. Who likes different things, who learned too fast. Who sometimes had a lot of trouble socializing with other kids his age," said Álvarez de la Paz, according to CNNMéxico.
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In an interview with El Sol de Zamora, the prodigy revealed that he wishes to excel in a variety of different subject areas and in order to achieve this goal, he sometimes studies in his free time. Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez was delivering a lecture to students at The Ethics and Influence of Technology and Science and encouraged them to follow his lead and place an emphasis on education. He told the students in the audience that they should not only study for an education, but so they can become great people in life.
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