Michelle Arellano, a 9-year-old girl from Mexicowill begin studying medicine at the University of Massachusetts at the end of Augustafter it was certified that he finished his secondary education eight years earlier than normal.
Michelle, a native of the state of Chiapas (in the southeast of the North American country), has several dreams. One of them is to be a doctor like her parents, but she, too, wants to be a marine biologist and an actress. The first of these will begin to come true on August 29 when she begins her classes at the university. Nevertheless, during the first two years he will attend virtually from his native Mexico.
Source: (EFE)
A short but hard road
In some respects, Michelle is a girl like any other: she likes to play with dolls, do origami and loves animals. However, the gifts of this girl of Mexico They go beyond the ordinary. She has an IQ of 158 (two points below Albert Einstein), speaks four languages (English, French, Italian and German, as well as Spanish), plays the piano, paints and is an outstanding athlete in swimming, basketball and taekwondo ( is a black belt).
At a year and a half he could already speak English, a language spoken by his father and who taught him the basics. At four years old, she Michelle she could already read and write. At first, her parents thought that she was the fruit of the early stimulation that both of them had given her. But later, when consulting with specialists, it was shown that the girl was gifted.
According to the WHO (World Health Organization), A child is gifted when their IQ is above 130 points.. However, the education of a child with these characteristics is not easy, because the educational system of the aztec country he is not ready for them.
There were several elementary schools that rejected Michelle’s admission; on the one hand, because of her age, but, on the other, because of her intelligence. Her parents hired several out-of-state tutors to teach her physics, biology, chemistry, and algebra. Finally, the Ministry of Education agreed to move her from fourth to sixth grade.
In November 2021, he accredited the end of elementary school, in March 2022, middle school and, in July, high school, with which he has everything ready to start receiving a university education. Of course, always with the accompaniment of the family and professionals to take care of their physical and mental well-being.
“Since I learned of the diagnosis, I have not let my daughter go, we are walking step by step according to how she feels, because that, yes: we have tried to be very careful with her emotional and physical integrity,” said her mother. , Karina Guillén Cruz, who now seeks to form an online network of parents of gifted children.