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16-year-old Haley Taylor Schlitz will be attending law school in the coming fall according to the ABA Journal.

The teen will graduate this May from Texas Woman’s University with her bachelor’s degree. Schlitz has been accepted by nine law schools and will attend Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in the fall.

Schlitz told Texas Lawyer she graduated high school at 13 after her parents homeschooled her in the fifth grade due to their displeasure with the education she was receiving.

“I was just being taught to pass the end-of-the-year test to get to the next grade,” she says. “I wasn’t being taught to learn.”

After completing high school at 13 she enrolled in a community college before beginning her studies at Texas Woman’s University. She explains that her experience as a person of color who was denied a chance to test into her school’s gifted program “sparked a fire” in her to become a lawyer and help fight inequality.

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