“My mother always told me I could do whatever I wanted to do in life,” she told the paper.
While at Purdue Northwest, which is in nearby Hammond, Osborne stood out to faculty and staff, BTN reported.
“She not only is academically gifted, but has demonstrated amazing intellectual maturity in her pursuit of a baccalaureate degree at Purdue Northwest,” Purdue Northwest spokesman Wes Lukoshus told the Northwest Indiana Times.
Meanwhile, Purdue associate professor of sociology Ralph Cherry, who had Osborne last spring in a class on research methods, said he did not realize that she was a high school student.
“Research methods is the most demanding class that I teach,” he told the Times.
If all that wasn’t enough, Osborne, who will turn 19 in August, was also striving to earn money.