A gifted student, Lester graduated at 16 from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
A gifted student, Melkonian received a scholarship to attend Columbia University in 1937.
A gifted student, Marcia attended Bryn Mawr College for which she retained a lifelong love and attachment.
A gifted student, he attended Cambridge University, but during a winter break went to fight with jihadists in Afghanistan in 1990.
A gifted student and tennis player, he graduated from Harvard College, in 1975, and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1977.
A gifted student, he sailed into one of America's top sociology departments at Madison, Wisconsin and published a book on firefighters while doing his masters.
A gifted student, she encountered stiff opposition from her family and relatives when she decided to opt for a career as a professional mountaineer rather than as a schoolteacher.
A gifted student, she lands in Johannesburg, by which time she has enough of a social conscience to turn down an American scholarship because, she says, "I'm needed here".
A gifted student of Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, the founder of the Basra school, al-Aṣmaʿī joined the court of the ʿAbbāsid caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd in Baghdad.
A gifted student in his own schooldays, Snape returned to his alma mater to teach potions, before taking up the ever-tricky defence against the dark arts post and latterly, the role of headmaster.
A gifted student, Du Bois attended Fisk University on scholarship and with funds raised by members of his First Congregational Church in town.
