BEREA, Ohio — 14-year-old William Warren has just completed his first semester at Baldwin Wallace University

What You Need To Know

  • William Warren has always felt like he was an accelerated student 

  • Warren has always had a knack for problem solving and asking questions 

  • Over the summer, Warren took a problem solving course with his now mentor and professor Ed Meyer

  • Meyer saw the potential in Warren, allowed him to shadow a physics class. Shortly after, he applied to Baldwin Wallace and was accepted. 

At only 14, William Warren completed his first semester at Baldwin Wallace University with great honors.

“I got all A’s this semester," he said. 

Excelling in school is not something new to him.

“I was never really regular because I always had a knack for problem solving and asking questions,” he said.

Those skills of problem solving and asking questions are exactly what got him into BW.

“I was really excited to be able to finally be recognized as accelerated because I had been accelerated, but I was finally recognized as that, and that really felt good,” he said.

Since he knows he’s always exceeded expectations, it may not come as a surprise that he is a physics major and aspires to be an astrophysicist one day.

This past summer Warren joined a summer problem-solving course with his now mentor professor, Ed Meyer, someone who Warren said allowed him to blossom.

“I really discovered my passion for problem solving and the fact that, you know, it's something I could really work at and improve on,” Warren said.

Meyer saw the potential and allowed Warren to sit in on his physics class, and from there he took off.

“The thing that I enjoy about working with William is that he loves to learn,” Meyer said. “That's what a teacher wants. You know, that's what a professor wants is somebody that is passionate about developing a fundamental understanding.”

Warren said this passion for pushing himself is deeply rooted.

“My story at Baldwin Wallace was not that 'Hey, you know, I can learn quickly and I could perform at the high level,'" he said, "I think it's that I was unhappy. So I worked very hard and accelerated myself to be able to be at the level I'd always wanted to be.”