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12-year-old to be youngest to graduate from Fullerton College with five degrees

At 7, Clovis Hung was bored with second grade. “I wanted more of a challenge,” he said. In 2019, his mother, Song Choi, pulled him out of second grade and began homeschooling him. A year later, when he was 9, he also enrolled in Fullerton College. “My husband and two daughters said I was crazy,” said Choi, who’s worked as a tutor for more than 20 years. “But I trust my instinct. I know he is a ...
Clovis Hung, 12, of Diamond Bar, California, is set to graduate with Fullerton College’ s class of 2023. He is the youngest person in college’ s 108 years to receive a degree, but he’ s not just receiving one degree, he’ s graduating with five. Here, he poses for a picture during Fullerton College’ s graduation rehearsal at Sherbeck Field at Fullerton College in Fullerton on...

At 7, Clovis Hung was bored with second grade.

“I wanted more of a challenge,” he said.

In 2019, his mother, Song Choi, pulled him out of second grade and began homeschooling him. A year later, when he was 9, he also enrolled in Fullerton College.

“My husband and two daughters said I was crazy,”

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