Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

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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 ...