Four years after making history as the youngest student of Florida A&M University (FAMU), senior Curtis Lawrence III is set to graduate this spring at age 20, still the youngest in his class.
“The four years that I’ve been here, I’ve done a lot and I’ve changed a lot as a person, and I’m prepared to go on to the next chapter,” Lawrence told the Tallahassee Democrat.
At age 10 while most boys were thinking of the latest video game, Curtis was taking his SATs. He then set his eyes on attending an HBCU after receiving more than $1.6 million in college scholarships and being accepted into top colleges and universities in the country including George Washington University, Hampton, Harvard, Howard, Morehouse, Morgan, North Carolina A&T, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Yale…