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Alia Sabur is like most 14-year-olds. She loves the rock band Matchbox 20. She does origami and watches "funny, pointless movies."
Yet, while most kids her age are studying high-school algebra, Alia is studying to get a doctor's degree in engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the youngest female Ph.D. student in the nation. Alia is so smart that she jumped from fourth grade straight to college. "There was really no other option," she told the …