9-Year-old Goes to College to Be Brain Surgeon for Kids His Age –And Wait ‘til You Hear Him Talk

At a time when most of his peers are navigating elementary school cafeterias, playgrounds, and yellow buses, Aiden Wilkens is embracing an entirely different challenge.

The 9-year-old Pennsylvania boy is already off to college—a fitting outcome for the lad who lives with his family in ‘Collegeville’.

As the youngest student ever to enroll at Ursinus College, studying anatomy and chemistry fits perfectly for Aiden, who’s been exceptional his entire life.

His mother, Veronica, said he was reading signs and correcting people’s sentences almost as soon as he could speak. As other toddlers watched cartoons, he became fascinated with the brain after watching dozens of intricate anatomy videos.

Aiden has been able to write algebraic equations for years—and passed his high school’s gifted test when he was only about six years old. A year later, he was enrolled in high school and is now a sophomore at Reach Cyber Charter School.

The articulate boy attends college classes three days a week and spends his other days working through high school coursework. He has set his sights on becoming a brain surgeon—and no one doubts he will achieve it.

“The reason why I want to be a pediatric neurosurgeon is mainly because I like helping kids my age,” Aiden told NBC Philadelphia in the video below. “It’s sad to see kids around my age with neuro-disabilities so I want to help them out.”

If Aiden stays on his present path, he might continue making history. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Balamurali Ambati currently holds the record for being the youngest doctor, having graduated from New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1995 at the age of 17 years, 294 days.

At Aiden’s pace, he may smash that record. But regardless of where he goes next, the 9-year-old college kid has already provided plenty of inspiration.

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“What I really want people to know from my story (is) all you have to do is put in work to do whatever you want.”

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