![]() ![]() “When the pandemic started, you see all of the cases and everything that’s going on, our everyday lives are changing in major ways, and I said, how can I help because that’s what I want to do, I want to help everybody around the world in many ways through healthcare,” Analeigh said.Īnaleigh says she is excited to begin medical school, but that is still a few years away as she is expected to first graduate from Arizona State University and Oakwood University in 2024. However, Analeigh refocused her talents to another area more pressing, the COVID-19 pandemic and the study of viruses, this led her to pursuing medical school to become a viral immunologist. It was a very difficult chair,” Analeigh said. “It was my first engineering class and they made me design a chair, and that’s where I stumbled. ![]() McQuarter says Analeigh, along with her older sister, who was also advanced, having graduated high school at 14 years old, were both homeschooled.Īnaleigh says her first few weeks in college were eye-opening and she realized her love for STEM would not go exactly as planned when an early project designing a chair caused her to rethink her college trajectory. McQuarter says, she realized her daughter was exceptional when she was 11 months old and by age 3 Analeigh was reading and holding full conversations. “She had a passion for the stars and NASA, so every summer, I would take her to a different NASA center,” McQuarter said. ![]() The teenager had her sights set on working for NASA, something her mom, Daphne McQuarter, says has always interested her daughter. Last year the 13-year-old made headlines when she was accepted into Arizona State University to study astronomical and planetary science and chemistry at just 12 years old. “Med school is more of where I wanted to go, and that’s where I found the passion for viral immunology,” Analeigh said. She says the programs and doctors at the school are what attracted her to UAB. “I was shaking, I was nervous but at the same time, I was confident, they would see all of my work and they would accept me,” Analeigh said of her accomplishment.Īnaleigh says she was accepted into Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham this past May, making her the youngest African-American to do it. ![]()
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