He graduated from high school at age 16 and was a doctor by 23.

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He graduated from high school at fourteen.

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To help his family, he worked nights and weekends until he graduated from Nutley High School in New Jersey, his website says.

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He graduated in 2006 from Westview High School, a public school in the San Diego area, school officials said.

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After Pejic graduated from high school, he was given the opportunity to expand his modeling reach beyond the conservative, more masculine Australian market to London -- his mom even borrowed money for the flight to get him there.

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When Roh graduated from Busan Commercial High School in 1966, he didn't have enough money to go to college.

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Initially told he wouldn't live past his 10th birthday, Ryan Dant graduated from high school in May.

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He left for the U.S. when still in high school, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with an economics degree and, upon his return to Japan, insisted on using his Korean surname, Son, instead of Yasumoto, the Japanese name his parents had taken.

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