Joe Petraro-Hyppolite

There are no awards, honours, or rankings to list, and inventing them would be the only way to fill this section. His distinction is a single documented fact: he was accepted into a master's program at New York University at 13, reported as making him among the youngest students ever admitted to an MA program there. That is the achievement the coverage rests on, and it is enough to have carried his story from a local Long Island paper to CBS News, the New York Post, People and the Times of India within a week.