on June 9, 2003, his 14th birthday, to begin graduate work in mathematics. He then attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., where he earned a bachelor of science degree cum laude, with a major in mathematics and minors in history and biology. Smith began public high school at age 7 and two years later graduated with honors from Orange Park High School in Florida. It only took him one year, for example, to advance from second to eighth grade. Smith of Keswick, Va., graduates at age 16, he will be the youngest person ever to receive a master’s degree from the University of Virginia.Ī child prodigy whose IQ reportedly tests “off the bell curve,” Smith was memorizing and reciting books at 14 months, adding numbers at 18 months and taking in the information presented to him by his parents and earliest teachers like a super computer.
