回复 'Justness' 的评论 : This is a form of education by mixing high school, home school and college so it took five years for her to finish college. Remember she was such a young kid, only 13 years old.
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你认为她在CSULA五年(1996-2001)干什么了?
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回复 'Justness' 的评论 : There was nothing wrong in the statement from your link here: "The family moved to Southern California in search of better employment opportunities, and Wen switched schools frequently as they moved from one troubled neighborhood to another. She says she was an unremarkable student, but in eighth grade she learned about a work-study program at California State University, Los Angeles, where she could learn laboratory techniques and get paid for going to school. “We really needed money for our family. My parents were working. I thought, ‘Why not contribute my share?’ ” she said.
She applied for the program, took a placement test, and was accepted, starting college without having attended high school.
“I look back now, and I’m astounded by the number of things that had to go the right way” when she was growing up, Wen said. We spoke in her window-lined office in the brick building in East Baltimore that houses the city health department. “There were so many times that I could have gone down the wrong ramp. We struggled with food insecurity, not knowing about jobs. I had all these dreams, but I had no idea how to achieve them. I didn’t know anyone who was a doctor.” In the impoverished neighborhoods where her family lived, she never had the opportunity to meet anyone who had attended college. She graduated from Cal State L.A. summa cum laude at 18.
Wen had her pick of full scholarships to medical and doctoral programs and chose the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis. "
She graduated from college at 18 and then started her medical school at WashU at the age of 18.
回复 'Justness' 的评论 : Please read here from my article: "别以为只有中国才有少年大学生,Leana在美国就是只有13岁即去读大学的,发现RNA干扰和TLR而获诺贝尔奖的两位科学家也是在这个年龄段去读的大学本科。Leana大概八岁随父母从上海移民美国,在加州洛杉矶的贫困区长大。她最近接受采访时说自己母亲在2010年患乳腺癌去世,没有等到她结婚,她也经常以母亲看病的例子谈美国的医疗体制改革。或许因为年龄太小,父母不忍心她远走高飞;也有可能是经济上的原因,她只能去当地的CSU (加州州立大学)的洛杉矶分校读书。她父亲为当地中文报纸的IT管理人员,妈妈为小学老师。报道中说她13岁就成为CSU的学生,当然美国人不到14岁的生日都说13岁,也就是说,她来美国仅5年就在如此年龄去读大学了。CSU为加州的另一套公立大学系统,声誉远在我们熟悉的UC(加州大学)系统之下。但是Leana是以最高荣誉从CSU毕业的,再次说明美国各阶段的人生都有重新洗牌的可能。