15-year-old passes entrance exams to multiple medical schools...Goes on to Catholic University (Korea)

A 15-year-old boy in South Korea has become a hot topic after being accepted into multiple medical schools. On the 22nd, a university official said that the hot topic is Kim Do-Yoon (male, 15), born in 2010.
Kim was accepted into the Catholic University of Tokyo Medical School and Sungkyunkwan University Medical School in the 2025 admissions program, which was announced in December last year.
Lim Seong-ho, the president of Jongno Academy, said, "It's rare for a 15-year-old to go on to medical school. He passed the high school equivalency exam and obtained a high school diploma.
After that, he took an essay test and passed the university's minimum academic standard.
"This was probably an advantage in the essay exam, which is based on mathematics," he added. There have been cases of 15-year-olds entering medical school in the past, in 2000 and 2006, but this is the first such case in recent times.
Kim is known to have demonstrated such exceptional talent in the fields of mathematics and science that she won a gold medal at the Middle School Mathematical Olympiad when she was in the fifth grade of elementary school.
In an interview with a media outlet, Kim said, "I had many conversations with my parents about topics that I was interested in, and I was able to take online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Through this experience, I have acquired the habit of thinking for myself, researching, and learning on my own," he said. "I mainly use online lectures, including EBS, and for subjects that do not have online lectures, I study for university entrance exams.
"I sometimes took offline classes at a cram school," he said, explaining his study method. When asked why he wanted to go to medical school, he said, "I wanted to be a medical scientist."
"I experienced the COVID-19 virus pandemic when I was in elementary school, and that's how I became interested in preventing and treating infectious diseases," he said. "I want to become a medical scientist who conducts basic medical research and new drug development research."
I would like to," he said.