Nicole Joseph WGN News

8:39 a.m. CDT, June 9, 2012

CHICAGO

A 21-year-old Chicago man becomes the youngest person to receive a medical degree from the University of Chicagos Pritzker School of Medicine.

Sho Yano graduated Friday with both a doctorate in molecular genetics and cell biology and a medical degree.

Yano scored a 1500 on his SAT when he was just 8 years old. He entered Loyola University Chicago at the age of nine, graduating summa cum laude three years later with a bachelors degree in biology.

He enrolled in the University of Chicago when he was twelve after several universities turned him down because of his age, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

The Sun Times also reports that Yano is a trained pianist who was composing music by the age of 5.

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21-year-old graduates medical school at U of C