<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1c4de931-e74a-44dc-ae1c-6d08dff67b7f/0D50F502-991A-4C63-B3A0-D576E9DC0F48/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article" href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article" style="font-size: 11px;">www.suntimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.suntimes.com/img/188BF36E-6161-4DCA-8330-825BEE2092B7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article"><DIV class="caption">Chirag Shah, 19, finished his undergraduate studies at UIC in a year and a half. He was enrolled in UIC's seven year medical program, but can't start his medical courses for two more years, so he's now in law school. <BR /><SPAN class="credit">(Keith Hale/Sun-Times)</SPAN> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article"> Shah breezed through his studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago in just a year and a half. And he got a 3.9 GPA on barely an hour a day of studying.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article">The 19-year-old explained that college mostly seemed like a "review" from his days at Barrington High School, where he took so many advanced courses, he was able to start as a junior at UIC.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article">"I just had a lot of free time," said Shah, who is jokingly referred to as "the brainiac" by friends. "I'd do different activities every day, spend a lot of time at the beach."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article">But because students in the rigorous track are required to wait at least three years before starting, Shah has to wait. So he's keeping himself busy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/429551,CST-NWS-student15.article">And then there's law school at John Marshall, where he's a first-year student.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0D50F502-991A-4C63-B3A0-D576E9DC0F48/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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