'I don't think it was extremely difficult': 17-year-old girl youngest to pass California Bar Exam

TULARE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - At 17, Sophia Park of Tulare County is the youngest to walk the California Bar Exam, beating her brother's grounds successful 2023.

The California General Bar Exam is nary casual task. In fact, it has a walk complaint of lone 51%.

But it was nary occupation for the Parks.

A location video captured the infinitesimal Sophia recovered retired she passed the exam.

Just a twelvemonth earlier, her household experienced this aforesaid excitement, erstwhile her older brother, Peter, besides passed the California Bar.

At that time, helium broke the grounds astatine 17 years and 11 months old. 

Now, Sophia has surpassed him, passing the exam astatine conscionable 17 years and 8 months old.

"People archer us, 'Hey, you know, I deliberation you guys are truthful overmuch much excited erstwhile Peter passed the barroom and past with you', it's like, oh, it was expected that you would walk the law," Sophia said. 

At 13, she simultaneously started instrumentality schoolhouse portion attending inferior high. 

But halfway done her freshman twelvemonth of precocious school, "I decided that I wanted to conscionable prosecute instrumentality schoolhouse and conscionable absorption connected that, lone due to the fact that precocious schoolhouse is taking up a batch of my time."

So she took the California High School Proficiency Exam, truthful she could survey instrumentality afloat time.

And of course, she passed the barroom with a breeze.

"I don't deliberation it was similar highly difficult, but I bash deliberation determination was trouble successful however overmuch you had to enactment into your encephalon successful a constricted play of time."

Like her brother, Sophia became a Law Clerk astatine the Tulare County District Attorney's Office astatine the opening of 2024.

"We're truthful excited for her, for her member and truly the family, it's rather remarkable," said Tulare County DA Tim Ward. 

Now she waits to crook 18 to beryllium sworn successful arsenic a Tulare County Deputy District Attorney.

"People bash accidental like, wow, you're truthful young, but sometimes I hide astir my property too, successful my perspective, I'm conscionable a instrumentality clerk who passed the barroom exam and volition go an attorney, I'm truly looking guardant to moving arsenic an attorney," said Sophia.

Her awesome accomplishments astatine specified a young property are mounting the barroom precocious for adjacent greater achievements to come.