Moshe Kai Cavalin, The 11-Year-Old College Graduate With 4.0 GPA (VIDEO)

Meet Moshe Kai Cavalin, the 11-year-old who just finished setting the bar impossibly high for college students everywhere. Not only did this youngster just graduate from college at the age of 11, but he did so with honors, holding down a 4.0 GPA, and his favorite subject is astrophysics.

He is also an accomplished martial artist, winning several national martial arts championships; his idols are Albert Einstein and Bruce Lee. He's going to use the next year to take up scuba diving, write a book for kids on how to succeed in school, and work on his martial arts skills.

Moshe isn't into video games because "it's not helping humanity in any way."

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Comments

[dubster]

01:31 AM on 06/08/2009

This is kid is very impressive. I admire is humbleness and industrious attitude. There are many appalling comments on here deriding the fact that he went to East LA college, so what, did it ever dawn upon people that he's from a poor, family and that was the closest and most affordable college? Well, now he's graduated with Honors, and is considering top flight schools e.g. Harvard and MIT. It's this kind of person that is going to be a future nobel prize winning physicist or scientist.

Moreover, again those that are so swift to say this kid should enjoy a normal childhood, clearly don't understand that he's not normal but rather extraordinary, and extraordinary people do incredible things for their country and field of expertise. In addition, those that are resentful of his ambitious and achievement have other issues of mediocrity, lack luster lives, or simply embarrassed that their own children don't compare. Can't people be happy for this kid? People on here sound like Sarah Palin hacks with their sophomoric , dubious scrutiny, and inquisitive remarks.

[zizyphus]

01:11 AM on 06/08/2009

Adorable, goodhearted and smart. he will go far. Congratulations, Moshe Kai!

[Snowspot]

12:56 AM on 06/08/2009

His comments about videogames make me think he needs to be a little more open-minded.

[SurrealPumpkin]

12:35 AM on 06/08/2009

Here's one college graduate who doesn't have to worry about a lousy job market. He has 5 more years to go before he can work!

[fem56]

11:27 PM on 06/07/2009

He sounds like a cute kid but our intellect is only part of us. Lots of brilliant kids out there enjoying a normal childhood. There are programs for really smart kids without sending them off to college. Parents get too much in a hurry and put their kids at risk in the long run. I sure hope he isn't one of those kids who gets burned out and resent that he missed a normal childhood. You can bet that his parents have worked with him since he was tiny and wasn't just playing in the sandbox. Many kids this young are quite mallable but he will be less so as he gets older.

[aliceautumn]

11:15 PM on 06/07/2009

Thanks goodness his gifts were recognized and he was allowed to attend college. If he has stayed in public school he would have been bored out of his mind. Our nations finest children should be applauded for their accomplishments and he is one of them. He wanted to learn, he was not pushed. He is a normal kid who learns things faster than other children. Lucky to have such great parents.

[SurrealPumpkin]

12:36 AM on 06/08/2009

The drawback is that the children don't get the socialization with peers that they need. Maybe that can be worked on in the next few years before he starts working.

[Cool-headed]

10:58 PM on 06/07/2009

He's obviously the son of a Chinese mother and a Jewish father (besides his name, Moshe, there's a small Israeli flag in the background somewhere in the beginning of the video).
Hmmm.... Reach your own conclusions. I, for one, am so happy to belong to one of these 2 groups, I won't say which, that treasure learning as an end in itself, not only as a means to make money eventually.

[ashabot]

10:44 PM on 06/07/2009

Cool kid.

[SparkyAdams]

10:01 PM on 06/07/2009

How are this kid's parents different from those hor rible mothers who put their 5 year old daughter's in pageants?

They should let him have a normal childhood.

[SurrealPumpkin]

12:37 AM on 06/08/2009

It's one of those dilemmas - keep the child intellectually stimulated or keep him with his peers.

We've got to figure out a way to do that. There are a lot of kids that operate intellectually way ahead of their chronological/social age.

[marco01]

12:47 AM on 06/08/2009

This is not a normal kid.

[swingerofbirches]

08:24 PM on 06/07/2009

Well, good, now that he's gotten that over with I guess he can finish middle and high school now. What could he have taken at a junior college that he couldn't have in a local high school anyway? Something's fishy...like why he left whatever regular schooling he was at when he was 8 years old. Students aren't generally taken out of the general population because they're excelling. Maybe they'll be put into a high school class, where he could just have easily taken several years of calculus and physics. How well does he write? Writing develops over time, it's not like all education is like math or physics where you can just pile-drive through it.#

[leopoldmozart]

08:52 PM on 06/07/2009

I teach at a community college, and I was thinking the exact same thing. If a boy is smart, he'll learn way more math in a one year high school honors calculus class than in a one semester community college class with mediocre students. Of course, we have no idea how far he went. In California, you can get your AA degree after finishing second year algebra, which would put him on the level of a high school sophmore.

I'd like to know the whole story.

[dubster]

01:14 AM on 06/08/2009

How well does he write? what a ludicrous question. This kid's expertise isn't English, it's physics. What I find fishy is your jealousy. And I'm sure his writing skills are exponentially superior to yours.

[swingerofbirches]

10:05 AM on 06/10/2009

Isn't an education supposed to be well rounded? We shouldn't graduate children from high school at age 8 because they have a propensity to do well in physics. As far as jealousy, I couldn't imagine his life being too easy. What is he racing toward? So he gets his PhD in a few more years, then what? It's not like you win some big prize. You just keep living, so what's the hurry?

[ninjarabbi]

07:29 PM on 06/07/2009

sure.
take away all the beer and chicks I could have got a 4.0. and big deal. an associates degree. ha. now dude is qualified to work in mickydees. but dude can't drive. bummer. bad plan. time to get a bunch of credit cards and max them all the F* out.

[AmbientDiscord]

08:55 PM on 06/07/2009

he has a degree in a real field. are you upset that you majored in liberal arts just to say you got the piece of paper?

[marco01]

12:48 AM on 06/08/2009

jealous?

[avocats]

07:24 PM on 06/07/2009

It's East Los Angeles College, people. Have you seen the level of scholastic work that goes on in California's junior colleges? They spend half their time trying to bring kids up to high school standards. And did he TAKE astrophysics there? Had he a degree from UCLA, this might be a story.

[Delphine]

07:47 PM on 06/07/2009

Dude, he's freaking 11 years old. Just the discipline to sit there and study and take tests is beyond a lot of 11 year olds. That's about 5th grade.

Who cares what college it is. He took REAL courses and passed REAL tests. And he's 11 years old.

When was the last time you spent time with an 11 year old that you knew well? Not to many could do this.

[dubster]

01:16 AM on 06/08/2009

Aw the opinion form a Learned Professor. Where did you get your Ph.D from?

[grammargirl]

07:10 PM on 06/07/2009

Kid's got an uncommon brain -- and I am sure encouraged and stimulated by wise parenta who have taught him humility as well. I've read where in India there are quite a few of these wonders, which some believe lend credence to the concept of reincarnation.

[Rangergirl]

06:03 PM on 06/07/2009

What a cutie ....Won't play video games because it won't help humanity one bit.........Boy is he right there....Hopefully he will be a great Scientist some day...He is level headed as well...God bless him and best of luck in his next endevor...Harvard, MIT....Cute

[Snowspot]

12:59 AM on 06/08/2009

First of all, you sound like a ped.ophile. The second awkard cute sealed the deal.

Oh and videogames will help the world a lot, just wait 10 years.

[dubster]

01:16 AM on 06/08/2009

clearly your vacuous.

[whoknew---]

05:54 PM on 06/07/2009

Congratulations,

Sounds like his interests are healthy and varied----

I hope his hard work offers him all the opportunities for his future success.