A 12-year-old boy has ticked off a remarkable achievement most could only dream of, and has graduated from college with five degrees.
Clovis Hung, 12, began attending Fullerton College in Orange County, Los Angeles, at just nine years old and last week became the youngest person to ever graduate from the institution, with not one but five degrees under his belt.
The pre-teen's mother, Song Choi, had pulled him out of traditional public school in 2020 after claiming he was highly self-motivated and goal-oriented, and he began attending Fullerton College in Fall 2020.
Clovis took to Facebook to mark the milestone moment, sharing photos of himself at graduation and writing: "Finally, it’s done. Congratulations to me. Love myself! You did such an incredible job!"
His mother said in a statement released by the school, via New York Post: "Clovis is super inquisitive, mature, diligent, self-disciplined, and highly motivated.
"He is also very curious and traditional public schools could not satisfy his curiosity, therefore, the best option was college."
Clovis was able to attend the college via "The Special Admit program", while also being homeschooled by his mother.
He admitted he was initially nervous about attending classes in-person but "instantly fell in love with college life. So, I challenged myself to take more classes."
Some of Clovis's professors had worried he would be intimidated by his classmates, being so much younger than everyone else at the school, but he took to it like a duck to water, treating him like a "little brother".
Fullerton Biology Professor Kenneth Collins said: "Clovis has been a great mixture of 'kid' and college student. He is mature enough that the other students take him seriously, but enough of a kid that they look after him like a younger brother and cheer him on."
Clovis added to KABC: "When I had questions, I asked them, and if they had questions, they’d ask me. They treated me like a little brother."
After getting used to college life, Clovis ended up taking more classes and was eventually accepted into the Honors Program too.
The boy genius graduated on May 20 along with 900 other graduates and picked up five Associate of Arts degrees, in history, social sciences, social behavior and self-development, arts and human expression, and science and mathematics.
Clovis had chosen Fullerton after seeing the then-13-year-old Jack Rico graduate in the spring of 2020 with four associate degrees, before later graduating from UNLV in December 2021, too.
However, Clovis managed to graduate while being one year younger in age and with one more degree than Jack overall.
He has now been elected to be Senator for Associated Students for the upcoming school year and will be taking STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses before applying to universities.
And as if his academic achievements weren't already impressive enough, Clovis has got some other seriously big dreams he wants to hit before reaching adulthood.
He told ABC7 that he wants to go on to a career in either aerospace engineering, pediatrics or be a pilot, adding: "I feel really proud of what I’ve accomplished so far. I also just joined the Civic Air Patrol and hope to get my pilot license at age 16."
Something tells us if anyone can do it - Clovis can.
