Harvard admits a minor student for the first time in 100 years

Dafne Almazán, just 17 years old, was admitted to the University of

Harvard

, do a master's degree in mathematics, break a record: it's the first time in a century that a minor has been accepted for 100 years.

Almazán entered the university at the age of 10 years. She graduated in psychology at the age of 13 and now seeks to obtain in this former and traditional higher education center a university education focused on techniques and models for the teaching of psychology. this exact science. .

"My plan is to design and use models for teaching mathematics in children in which an gifted is diagnosed, which is precisely one of the postgraduate approaches," Almazán said. in a statement.

Discovered as a child gifted since childhood and encouraged by her parents to develop their potential, the young woman plans to obtain her first postgraduate degree in May 2020, that is to say to 18 years old.

In her early years, she has mastered four languages ​​(English, French, Mandarin Chinese and Latin), participated as a speaker at various national and international forums and the year before, she was ranked by Forbes Mexico magazine among 50 Mexico. "

Almazán also received a Master's degree in Educational Innovation from the Monterrey Higher Education Technological Institute in December 2017, one of the most prestigious private university teaching centers in the country.

Although she is a psychologist, mathematics seems to exert a fascination for her because her thesis focused on the positive effects of differentiated education in the teaching of mathematics for gifted at elementary levels.

The study focused specifically on basic algebra, one of the least performing areas of the International Program for the Evaluation of Pupils (PISA) at the national level.

Dafne thinks that "gifted children in Mexico are stereotyped, misdiagnosed and misunderstood" and fear that people believe that "they spend a lot of time in jail or are a copy of Einstein".

"I studied but I also played, I learned to play instruments, I walked my dogs," says the teenager, who also likes to play instruments .

Currently, he takes piano, violin, guitar, voice and drama clbades, as well as martial arts such as taekwondo and kempo, although he does not have a lot of time.

With information from the ANSA agency