Cambridge University welcomes a 14-year-old student

A 14-year-old maths genius could soon become one of the youngest students ever at Cambridge University. In Britain most teens do their GCSE exams when they’re 16 and their A-level exams when they’re 18. But Arran Fernandez, 14, from Surrey in England, did his first GCSE exam when he was just five years old. He has already passed most of his A-level exams and just has to pass his physics exam to accept an offer from Cambridge University to become a student there in October.

Arran has been homeschooled by his father all his life. He told reporters, “I enjoy being home-schooled because I'm more involved. I can see the mark schemes and help my dad decide the curriculum.” Arran loves math and hopes one day to solve a 150-year-old math problem called the Riemann hypothesis.

Cambridge University is one of the top universities in the world. The last 14-year-old student the university remembers having was William Pitt the Younger. He studied there in the 1770s and later became the prime minister of Britain.