Tanishq Abraham Biography 
Tanishq Abraham is an American child genius and a child prodigy of Indian origin. Abraham graduated from high school on June 2014 with a 4.0 GPA and a Mensa membership and most surprisingly he is only 10 years old. His 8-year-old sister, Tiara is also a child prodigy who became a Mensa member at the age of 4 in 2010. Thus the two became the youngest siblings to join the high-IQ society and are also the youngest South Asians to join Mensa. Both the kids showed intelligence at a younger age. He also received a congratulatory letter from President Barack Obama for his outstanding performance and intelligence.
He was born in Sacramento, California to Indian parents. His father Bijou Abraham is a software engineer and his mother Dr. Taji Abraham is a veterinary doctor. At the age of just 4 months, this wonder boy could flip the pages of books and answer questions based on the story books. By the age of 2, he started adding and subtracting numbers. When Tanishq turned 4, he scored in the 99.9th percentile on an IQ test. He also got admission to Mensa by this age, which gave him better education opportunities.
At the age of 5, he completed the math courses offered by Stanford University in 5 grades. At the age of 6, he took online high school and college level classes in subjects like Chemistry, Biology etc. He was doing homeschooling then. He enrolled at American River College in Sacramento at the age of 7 and completed courses in Geology & Astronomy. He was the class topper too. In 2012, he completed about one-third of the college units needed to graduate with an Associate's degree, apart from chemistry course from UC Berkeley. He surprised everyone by graduating at the age of 10, one of the youngest in the US to graduate high school.
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Updated: June 13, 2014
