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