Fifteen-year-old American James Chichimegrias is preparing to start studying law later this year after scoring 174 on the admission exam last year, the highest score in his state of Mississippi. Typically, studying law in the United States takes about three years, and if James completes it on time, he will become the youngest law graduate in the world, in addition to holding both a bachelor's and a master's degree in accounting.
The current youngest law graduate in the world is Steven Backus from Florida, who completed his studies at the University of Miami at the age of 16 in 1986. According to the British newspaper "The Guardian," James's parents recognized early on that their son was exceptionally intelligent, as he was speaking in full sentences by the age of two and earned a diploma from St. John Paul II High School in Bay Saint Louis at the age of 12. James said, "When I did well, we kept pushing forward, so it hasn’t been easy; my parents did a great job of challenging me."
