Hajar Elayyadi is 15-year-old high school student with an associate degree.
She’s on track to graduate in two years with her bachelor’s in biology.
After that? She plans to spend a year abroad getting her master’s in public health and then go to medical school − starting in a residency program by the time she’s 23 to work in invasive cardiology.
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“I really do have to give credit to my brother and his friends,” Hajar said. Her brother, Bilal Elayyadi, earned two associate degrees − one in art and one in science − in high school. “That really invigorated me and sparked that kind of hope that I could do the same thing, or kind of replicate their success in my own way.”
The Elayyadi siblings are two of Ignite Institute‘s 1,000 students, many…
