In this Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 photo, Sushma Verma, 13, does her homework at her house in Lucknow, India. Verma, from a poor family in north India, enrolled in a master's degree in microbiology, after her father sold his land to pay for some of his daughter's tuition in the hope of catapulting her into India's growing middle class. Verma finished high school at 7 and earned an undergraduate degree at age 13 - milestones she said were possible only with the sacrifices and encouragement of her uneducated and impoverished parents. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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