Jenna Mullins, who graduated from Auburn University at the age of 20, is seen Thursday at her home in Hokes Bluff. Mullins was enrolled in high school and Gadsden State at the same time and graduated from both the same year.

Not many 20-year-olds have a college alumni license plate holder. Jenna Mullins does.

Jenna, a 2010 graduate of Hokes Bluff High School and Gadsden State Community College, graduated in December from Auburn University.

She graduated from high school and the two-year college the same year, thanks to the dual enrollment program.

Jenna always excelled in school and began taking dual enrollment classes in ninth grade after her mother, Susan a former instructor at the school learned about it through a co-worker whose child, in school in another county, was doing dual enrollment.

She enjoyed school. I enjoyed the challenge, she said.

She was taking regular classes at Hokes Bluff. Instead of a taking an elective that had little impact, she decided to take the college classes. The school officials approved her request, and she began.

Jenna was taking some college courses before she could even drive. Her older brother, Matt, would take her there.

She also worked before she could drive, spending one summer at the Hokes Bluff ball fields, managing the concession stand.

It was the beginning of Jenna's senior year in high school when she first realized she had enough college credits to possibly graduate from community college at the same time as high school.

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Woman graduates Auburn at 20 thanks to dual enrollment