Puerto Vallarta News

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12-year old boy becomes UNAM’s youngest university student

At 12 years of age, children in Mexico usually complete their primary education. But Carlos Santamaría school began to bore him from the second year, so he decided to go further and pursue university studies as a listener at age 8 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Today Santamaría is the youngest student of the UNAM to enroll in a bachelor's degree, where he will study Biomedical Physics. So far, only a dozen young people had managed to register at 15 years of age.

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