A volunteer “college coach” with College Summit, Kevin Hudson, left, tells students that college admissions officers won’t be impressed with their dreams if they have no proof of them doing anything to make them come true.
The words that came out of the high school senior’s mouth initially sounded good.
He spoke of aspiring to attend MIT and majoring in astrophysics and aeronautical engineering.
And when it came to algebra, he said he “just liked” algebra so much that he enjoys solving algebraic problems “for fun.”
But the student’s high school transcript told a different story.
He had a D in Algebra II and hadn’t taken any classes — neither physics nor precalculus — that would suggest he was serious about going to one of most competitive universities in the nation to learn how to design and fix things that fly.
The student explained that he doesn’t do his schoolwork because he doesn’t find school challenging and tends to “blend in” with the other slackers.
Asked if he had done anything outside of school to demonstrate a genuine interest in astrophysics and aeronautical engineering, he had no examples to offer, despite living in a city where such programs are abundant.
