15-Year-Old Starts Freshman Year at Penn

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Brittney Exline is too young to vote, drive a car or go to an R-rated movie, but at the age of just 15 she is beginning her Ivy League career Wednesday when classes start at the University of Pennsylvania.

She said she doesn't really notice the age gap between herself and her 17- and 18-year-old peers - and neither do they.

"I didn't tell people right off the bat that I was 15," Exline said. "A lot of people were pretty surprised."

Exline grew up in Colorado Springs, Colo., where at 8 years she was already in sixth grade. By 13 she had finished high school math. She turned 15 in February and graduated a few months later.

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Makes me think of this family:

12-Year-Old Goes to College, Follows Siblings (http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6996001&nav=0qq6)

Most of us graduate high school when we're about 18, then we start college. But in one family, the young students are succeeding beyond their years.

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But academically he's on their level. The 11-year-old should be in sixth grade, but he's a freshman, not in high school, but in college.

Overachieving academically runs in the family. His 16-year-old sister Serennah is a senior at Huntingdon College.

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Serennah and Heath's two older sisters also started college by 12, but their mother insists they're just an average family.