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HONG KONG: Britain’s Oxford University has accepted
a 17-year-old from Hong Kong on one of its doctorate programs,
making him one of the famed university’s youngest such students, a
report said Wednesday.
Horatio Boedihardjo became an
Oxford undergraduate at 14 and has now been admitted to the
university’s mathematics doctorate program, the South China
Morning Post said.
Oxford Ph.D. students are
normally four to five years older when they begin their doctorates,
yet despite the feat he faces stiff competition from his potentially
even more precocious younger brother.
His sibling, March, became Hong
Kong’s youngest ever university student at the tender age of just
nine in September, leading the report to dub Horatio Boedihardjo as
the “prodigy’s brother.”
“I believe it is just a start
for me, to change this good fortune into success in the future,”
the elder brother said, according to the report.
He said he would use the
opportunity to try and emulate the success of Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, the report said.
March won international attention
when he started his mathematics course at Hong Kong Baptist
University, but said at the time that he was already bored with his
“very easy” classes.
--AFP
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