12-year-old college sophomore gets into his dream engineering program
12-year-old prodigy has been accepted to the Georgia Institute of Technology s aerospace engineering program
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Caleb Anderson is a year shy of being a teenager, and already on track to graduating with his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering.
The child science prodigy is set to transfer from
Chattahoochee Technical College to his dream school, the
Georgia Institute of Technology, in the fall.
“Caleb Anderson was just 3 when became the youngest Black American male to qualify for MENSA,” the
Georgia Institute of Technologywrote to People. “Now 12, Caleb has been officially accepted to Georgia Tech and will join us on campus this fall to earn a degree in aerospace engineering.”
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But now, Caleb has something else to be proud of: he was recently accepted to his dream school, the Georgia Institute of Technology. Caleb Anderson was just 3 when became the youngest Black American male to qualify for MENSA, the college wrote. Now 12, Caleb has been officially accepted to Georgia Tech and will join us on campus this fall to earn a degree in aerospace engineering.
ATLANTA – His story has been so amazing that it s inspired people around the world. Now, a 12-year-old from Marietta is taking the next giant leap in his educational journey - Georgia Tech.
11Alive first shared Caleb Anderson s story in September - a young man who had just begun his sophomore year at Chattahoochee Technical College before most people start high school. His major: aerospace engineering.
But this was far from the first milestone of brilliance that young Caleb had reached - far from it. His parents told 11Alive s La Tasha Givens back in October that they knew he was special when he was able to sign 250 words at just 9 months old. He was reading the U.S. Constitution at age two.
Anderson loves outer space and wants to be an aerospace engineer.
“I’m fascinated that there’s another world beyond ours. There’s another place. There’s a better place,” he previously shared with NPR.
“You have the heroes that go on the rockets and fly up to space. But the aerospace engineers, they have their life in their hands. And I really think it’s interesting and amazing that they do that,” he said.
Caleb’s mother,
Claire Anderson, recognized when her son was an infant that he was extremely gifted.Â
Caleb passed the first grade when he was age 3 and could have skipped middle school, “But we still decided to put Caleb into the seventh grade to build social skills and just think about the well-rounded child,” said Claire. However, being the smartest little guy in the room was not easy for Caleb.