By Associated Press - Tuesday, May 17, 2016

DETROIT (AP) - A 21-year-old woman is graduating from the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

MLive.com (https://bit.ly/258AtJ7 ) reports Ola Hadaya was set to graduate from the medical school Monday after starting there in 2012 at age 17. According to a university spokesperson, Hadaya skipped the third, fifth and seventh grades.

Hadaya started high school in New Jersey when she was 11. She received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in Middle Eastern studies with a biology minor.

Hadaya’s father is a doctor, and her mother is a mechanical engineer.

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Information from: The Grand Rapids Press:MLive.com, https://www.mlive.com

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