Until this week, Allen Zhang had the distinction of being the youngest person ever to enrol in UBC’s medical program.
Then Leah Kosyakovsky came along.
Kosyakovsky, all of 16 years old, joined the newest contingent of 288 first-year medical students last month, after having earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in May and being accepted to two other Canadian medical schools.
Typically, students enrol in medical school in their early 20s after spending four years at university, and sometimes pursuing other interests, other degrees or even careers. Zhang and Kosyakovsky, having proven their academic mettle and becoming certain of what interested them, saw no need to wait.
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