SACRAMENTO, CA - A 10-year-old Northern California boy is celebrating a milestone most people don’t reach until they are in their late teens. Tanishq Abraham has become one of the youngest people to graduate from high school. The Sacramento boy received his diploma at a private ceremony in front of family and friends on June 9, and even got a congratulatory letter from the White House, KXTV in Sacramento reported.
Tanishq was home-schooled and graduated with a 4.0 GPA. He told KXTV the work wasn’t easy, but not that hard either.
His parents Dr. Taji Abraham and Bijou Abraham, an engineer took their son starting from local community colleges while studying his school subjects at home. “The way my brain works is that when you give me something, information about that topic comes into my mind,” he said. “I don’t know what it is, but that’s how it is for me.” His mom, Taji, said she suspected her son was gifted, but didn’t know until the results of an IQ test. Tanishq joined Mensa, a group for people whose IQ is in the top 2 percent of the population, at the age of 4. Abraham’s younger sister Tiara, 9, also joined Mensa when she was four years old, and has voiced an interest in following her mother’s footsteps towards becoming a veterinarian. She is also home-schooled, and likely to graduate from high school within the next year or two. Tanishq is taking college courses and has his sights set on medical school and finding a cure for cancer. Abraham has been featured on numerous talk shows in recent weeks, including CBS’ “The Doctors.” His appearance on that show made him the youngest medical TV correspondent for a nationally syndicated show in the history of television in the US.
His parents Dr. Taji Abraham and Bijou Abraham, an engineer took their son starting from local community colleges while studying his school subjects at home. “The way my brain works is that when you give me something, information about that topic comes into my mind,” he said. “I don’t know what it is, but that’s how it is for me.” His mom, Taji, said she suspected her son was gifted, but didn’t know until the results of an IQ test. Tanishq joined Mensa, a group for people whose IQ is in the top 2 percent of the population, at the age of 4. Abraham’s younger sister Tiara, 9, also joined Mensa when she was four years old, and has voiced an interest in following her mother’s footsteps towards becoming a veterinarian. She is also home-schooled, and likely to graduate from high school within the next year or two. Tanishq is taking college courses and has his sights set on medical school and finding a cure for cancer. Abraham has been featured on numerous talk shows in recent weeks, including CBS’ “The Doctors.” His appearance on that show made him the youngest medical TV correspondent for a nationally syndicated show in the history of television in the US.