Grace Bush: 16-year-old graduates from FAU before high school

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That's pretty good. But if she's going to law school she needs to attend a T14 school if not a top 3 school. I wonder if there's a way I can get in contact with her to tell her.
 

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She's getting her college degree a week before her high school diploma .. :damn:

Keep in mind there are plans to take away home schooling or make it more difficult to do in several states... crazy.

How old are her parents having 9 kids...and what the hell do they do...I'm not mad, just wondering :lupe: ....

Mom is cute. :ehh:
 

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How old are her parents having 9 kids...and what the hell do they do...I'm not mad, just wondering

The mother is 49 or 50 according to various white page sites. The mother Gisla stays home with the kids and home schools them. I don't know what the father does. College is free because they do high school dual enrollment. This family lives life with a plan.
 

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The mother is 49 or 50 according to various white page sites. The mother Gisla stays home with the kids and home schools them. I don't know what the father does. College is free because they do high school dual enrollment. This family lives life with a plan.

explain high school dual enrollment being free??
 

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Congrats to all 3. Their parents have done a great job.
 

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explain high school dual enrollment being free??

I don't live in Florida but apparently they offer high school classes that are the same level as college courses. In addition, the high school students can take two college courses per semester. Grace and her sisters attended Florida Atlantic University High School so tuition and books were free. I think they had to pay a few minor fees.

Here is enrollment information for FAU High School:
FAU - High School Dual Enrollment

Here is the Florida statute on dual enrollment:
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That's pretty good. But if she's going to law school she needs to attend a T14 school if not a top 3 school. I wonder if there's a way I can get in contact with her to tell her.

You can look up her mother on the telephone directory sites (White Pages, 411) and an address will pop up. You can also write FAU High, her sister still attends. Grace isn't ready for a T3 law school, her resume is too weak. FAU is not a highly selective school so Grace needs a 170 or better on the LSAT. Cortlan Wickliff went to Harvard Law at 19 but he had a BS in bioengineering from Rice.

This woman went to FAU, but look at her resume:
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Ashley Parker attended Florida Atlantic University from 2010-2012, majoring in Political Science with a specialization in international Law. Ashley was selected in 2012 by the Diplomacy Program to represent the university in the Midwest Model European Union simulation in Indianapolis, Indiana. She represented Estonia as an Environmental Minister, addressing issues such as environmental degradation. While 2012 represented FAU’s first participation in Midwest Model EU, Ashley and her delegation were recognized with two Best Delegate Awards and an overall 2nd place in the competition.
While enrolled at FAU, Ashley was a member of the Political Science Honor Society Psi Sigma Alpha as well as the academic Honor Society Omicron Delta Kappa. Ashley was also a volunteer for the office of Student with Disabilities. Ashley graduated from FAU in the spring 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a 4.0 GPA. Scoring in the 98th percentile on the LSAT, Ashley was accepted into the Columbia University.
 
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Here's another article with a few more details on the family.




1 of 4. Grace Bush poses at her home in West Park, Florida, May 6, 2014.
(Reuters) - Last week, just days before her high school graduation, 16-year-old Grace Bush collected a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from a south Florida university, fulfilling her proud parents' cost-saving plan on tuition.

Bush will graduate from high school this Friday, but is already planning on heading back to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton for a master's degree in public administration before seeking a law degree.

Home-schooled until 13 with her eight siblings, Grace began reading around the age of 2, her mother Gisla Bush said.
"I sat her in my lap and read to her every day for a few minutes so I could move on to do what I needed to do with my other kids," Bush said. "Then one day I saw her reading by herself and from that point on she did everything her other sisters did."

Grace Bush began taking college classes at 13 and enrolled in summer sessions to finish the college degree in three years. She is the third of her siblings to combine high school and college, but the youngest to complete both.

The family's home schooling and early graduation came as much out of financial need as it did from the daughters' stunning abilities. They discovered they could take college credits at FAU while studying at the high school on campus, saving both time and money.

Gisla Bush, 49, is a full-time mother - her youngest child is only 11 months old - and her husband works as a human resources analyst for the city of Pompano Beach. Bush is the daughter of a roofer with a fifth grade education and is herself one of 10 siblings, all of whom graduated from college.

"Everything was paid for, tuition, books, transportation. That was our benefit," she said.

Grace Bush rises at 5:30 a.m., arriving at school from the family home in Hollywood, Florida, before the first bell rings at 8 a.m. She spends the next 14 hours combining high school and college classes and playing the flute in two orchestras.

She's home by 11 p.m. to study for three hours before drifting to sleep in the middle of the night.

"Ultimately I would like to become a Supreme Court justice ... but between law school and that I'm not sure what I'll do," she said.

Gisla Bush, who studied architecture and law, credited Grace's grandfather, William Chennault, a World War Two veteran and grandson of slaves, for the family work ethic.

Florida girl graduates college and high school a week apart| Reuters
 
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