An 8 year old boy is approved by a university in Belgium

A Belgian boy graduated from high school and graduated from university at the age of eight. The boy has achieved completion of 6 years of study in just a year and a half, completed through private lessons.

Laurent Simons, whose father is Belgian and his Dutch mother, has an IQ of 145, according to his parents, and graduated from a group of students 18 years old. In Belgium, according to the local press, 2.5% of the population is considered as having a high potential with an IQ of 130 or more.

In an interview with RTBF, Laurent says that his favorite subject is mathematics "because it's so vast, with statistics, geometry, algebra."

Laureny already been interviewed by several universities, according to his father Alexander. "We are always orienting ourselves," he said, "we have received a lot of offers, including from abroad."

The boy, however, has not yet chosen an institution. The boy's father said that his son had even insisted on playing with other children when he was younger, but he was not interested in children. toys

The boy himself stated that he was bored in the clbadroom. "Sometimes other students took too long to answer, so I was answering for them," he told reporters at his first press conference.

Lawrence stated that he was considering becoming a surgeon and astronaut. "If he decided that tomorrow he would be a carpenter, that would not be a problem for us, as long as he would be happy," said his father