she graduated from both in the same week. >> grace bush. >> grace bush. >> grace, you're truly an amazing not just graduate, good to see you, thanks for being with us. >> you're welcome. >> you started college classes at 13, is that right? >> yes, that's correct. >> why? >> it was basically a financial situation, my parents have nine kids so putting us all through college was an issue for them. being able to go through this program, i was allowed to get my college education for free. >> i understand you're not the only one in your family who's done this, is that right? >> correct, my oldest is sistero is 18 graduated last summer and my second oldest is graduating this summer with her bachelor's degree. >> when you started at 13, high prepared were you? >> i didn't think i was very prepared but when i walked in my first class i still remembered -- i felt like nothing really changed -- i was home schooled before and step into the college class didn't feel any different. >> your mom home schooled you and your siblings as well. how much of a role do you think that played in your success? >> w

. >> reporter: at a very young age, grace bush has already proved to be most remarkable. >> i'm 16 yearsminal justice. >> reporter: in just three years, she earned a college degree with honors at a florida university in boca raton, making her the youngest there to ever do that. >> it was a lot of late nights and early mornings. >> reporter: she enrolled in a special program that allowed her to take college-level courses for which she also got high school credit. so at a graduation ceremony friday night, she got her high school diploma. >> grace bush, magna cum laude. >> reporter: and the week before at another ceremony, she got her college diploma. >> you're an amazing young woman. >> reporter: her mother was not surprised. she comes from a family of nine children ages 11 months to 19 years. home schooled by her mother. >> parents take control of her education and don't cowher. >> reporter: don't take any stuff? >> not from the kids. >> reporter: masters degree and then plans to go to law school. after that, she has even bigger plans. >> i'm planning on becoming chief criminal justice of

. >> massive congratulations this morning to 16-year-old grace bush of south florida.er bachelor's degree in criminal justice from florida atlantic university. she finished the four-year program in just three years. >> her grade point average, 3.8. and this friday grace will get her diploma from the high school affiliated with florida atlantic. she's starting masters studies in the fall and is planning on going to law school. >> and she's not messing around. congrats to her. she says she wants to become chief justice of the united states. that's the position held by john roberts. she's aiming high. >> i think she's going to make it. you see she's musical. in her spare time she plays the flute in two different orchestras, because i'm sure she's just not busy enough. high school and college. pretty incredible stuff. >> good luck to you. >>> coming up in "the skinny," the future king of england and his stunning move. all about the buzz with prince william and what he did for hours with the commoners. >>> later, sink or swim in washington. it's about tough love for some ba

grace bush was home-schooled until she was 13 and that is when she started taking both high school ande classes through a program at florida atlantic university. >> i started when i was 13 at broward college and i also took my classes throughout the summer so i was able to finish it before four years. >> at 2 years old she was reading and i was totally shocked. >> i would eventually like to become chief justice of the united states. >> grace has her bachelor's degree in criminal justice and plans to get her law degree so she can keep making her mark. >>> you just heard before the break from david and jason benham host of an upcoming hgtv show but america won't see the show after controversial comments caused the network to pull it from its fall lineup. so let's talk it over with my panel samantha shocker and lz granderson and margaret hoover and brian claypool. lz, i'm going to start with you on this one. should their comments have cost them the show, do you think? >> i don't really think their comments necessarily cost them the show. i think the fact that their brand seemed to represe

joining us now is grace bush with her incredible story.g. >> thank you. >> help me understand this because i'm not too bright. you managed to get your college degree before your high school diploma. help me out here, how did that happen? >> well, it just so happened that my college graduation was a week before my high school graduation. that was kind of just something that happened. >> no, it's not. it's not something that just happened. now, you managed to get, how did you manage to get a college degree while in high school and actually graduate before you received your high school diploma? what enabled you to do that? >> i started at broward college when i was 13 and then transferred to llowed to take c courses in place of high school courses. >> take advanced college classes in your high school and then actually grad wait from high school. what did you did get your degree in? >> criminal justice. >> what do you want to grow up to be? >> i would like to be the chief supreme court justice of the united states. >> i think you're well on yo

bush in the oval office. grace was almost three years old. she loves miss beasley.sley the entire way to the white house. she drove five hours. there is the president accepting them. we just had such a special time. and these pictures, when i found them, i thought i can't just keep them to myself. i want to share. >> i have a lot of pictures in the last week of miss beasley. god rest her soul. great dog. >> we had a sad week because she was in doggy heaven this week and they miss her. >> that's my dog charlie and my daughter sally. i would say charlie was about a year old, and she went on something. sally, that is her screen saver. >> the theme of this throwback thursday is? >> kids and their pets. >> but these are pets in the past; right? >> could be. >> this is my dog kelly. that's me, i think, in 1951. that's my older brother jim and that's kelly and king. kelly used to chew rocks in front of our new guests. he had old broken teeth. to my far right is king. that is who my brother is with, king. i found king walking out of the woods. this dog walked right over to

bush had these wonderful contrarieties, to use a word my dad probably would have used. he was, you know, one of the most athletic of people, one of the most gracefultain of the yale baseball team. and he had this sort of funny,. after he left the white house in '93, i guess it would have been, he was an avid golfer. he went out to pebble beach to play in a program charity golf tournament where they have a lot of the other celebrities. bill clinton, i think was there. clint eastwood. you know, the usual suspects. and, you know, it was being televised. so he is teeing off the first tee. and he sliced wickedly. a very hard loss in to this call of a female spectator. it made this sort of horrible liquid sound. and she is lying there. the medics are applying pressure bandages. mr. bush, the most polite and considered human being. just the nicest episcopalian ever in history from greenwich, conn. he is apologizing. out, my god. but because it was televised president clinton said, i really have to keep going. so a couple of hours later he is lining up his butt on the 17th hole, i guess i would call it. he looks over, there's a woman in a wheelchair with