'Once-in-a-generation level talent': This 15-year-old is a New Orleans law student & a CPA

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James “Jimmy” Chilimigras is a typical first-year law student in many ways. He gets called on by professors in class, he spends hours in the library, and lugs around textbooks about Louisiana civil code.

He’s also 15 years old.

Chilimigras, a native of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, began attending Loyola Law School this fall after completing a bachelor's and master's degree and passing the Certified Public Accountant exam. He's attending Loyola on a merit-based full scholarship. [quote]

[quote] James “Jimmy” Chilimigras is a typical first-year law student in many ways. He gets called on by professors in class, he spends hours in the library, and lugs around textbooks about Louisiana civil code.

He’s also 15 years old.

Chilimigras, a native of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, began attending Loyola Law School this fall after completing a bachelor's and master's degree and passing the Certified Public Accountant exam. He's attending Loyola on a merit-based full scholarship.

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He earned a 174 out of 180 on the LSAT, an excellent score considered in the 99th percentile.

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He said at the rate he's going, he recognizes that when he's 18, most people his age will be just finishing high school and headed to college.

"And I'll be done with everything," he said. "So then I'm free to do whatever. ... I'll have a lot of freedom, which I think is pretty cool because those are kind of your best years, your 20s."

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