Alena Analeigh Wicker, is the youngest black student accepted to medical school
At just 13 years old, Alena Analeigh Wicker just became the youngest black student to ever be accepted to medical school.
Alena Analeigh Wicker has become the youngest black student ever accepted to medical school at just 13 years old.@thebrownstemgirl
At just 13 years old, Alena Analeigh Wicker just became the youngest black student to ever be accepted to medical school.
The young girl, from just outside Fort Worth, Texas, was reading chapter books at 3 and taking high school courses at 11 — and she enrolled in two colleges at 12 to earn two separate degrees.
Alena is currently a college junior at both Arizona State University and Alabama’s Oakwood University, where she is earning two separate undergraduate degrees in biological sciences through mostly online courses.
Encouraged by her family, educators and advisers, she applied for early acceptance to medical school at the University of Alabama’s Heersink School of Medicine for 2024.
In May she was accepted into the program — even though she is more than 10 years younger than the average incoming med student.
And regardless of her age, the chances of Alena being accepted were already very slim, with only 7% of applicants being accepted into US medical schools and only 7% of those being black students.
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