The incredible story of Dafne Almazán, the youngest student admitted to Harvard in a hundred years

The Mexican Dafne Almazán She became the youngest student to have been accepted by Harvard University in the last 100 years.

The impressive feat of Almazán has a very simple explanation: Dafne is gifted. With only six years old, the girl already knew how to read and write; When she was 10, she graduated from high school and at 13, she became the youngest psychologist in the world. Now, with seventeen, he has just enrolled at the prestigious American university, where he will follow master's degree in mathematics.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a gifted person is a person whose intellectual coefficient (IQ) exceeds 130 pointswhile that of a normal person is between 90 and 109.

According to Dafne's father, "many talented children in Mexico are stereotype, misdiagnosed and little understood"But that was not the case with her daughter." I studied but I also played; I learned to play instruments and I walked my dogs, "said the young woman.

In addition to the numbers, Dafne said that he loves art"I'm learning piano, violin, guitar, singing, and drama." In addition, he studied Chinese and practiced taekwondo and kempo. "

Regarding his field of study, he sought to eliminate some myths: "You still think that math is difficult, but it's something that is in our lives and you need strategies to teach it and that children can be interested. "

The father of the young woman, director of the Center for Attention to Talent (CEDAT), explained that one of the characteristic traits of a gifted child is hyperactivity, quick learning, the tendency to distraction, the use of similar words old people and continually build objects and structures, among others.

For now, Dafne was happy to have had the chance to be accepted by Harvard and said she wanted to develop professionally so she could help other kids like her.