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12-Year Old Marietta Boy Accepted To Georgia Tech
Caleb Anderson could be enrolled at the university in Atlanta as early as this fall.
MARIETTA, GA — Caleb Anderson, the 12-year-old college student from Marietta, has been accepted to the Georgia Institute of Technology and plans to study aerospace engineering, according to a report from WSB-TV 2 Atlanta.
Already a college student in his sophomore year at Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Caleb could read the United States Constitution by age two and at three years old, had qualified for MENSA. He was the youngest African-American boy to be accepted.
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The young prodigy could enroll at Georgia Tech as early as this fall, according to WSB-TV.
Caleb has even bigger plans for after college, he told the television station.
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“I think I am going to go to Mars, and do more school, I think, and try to get my master’s at Georgia Tech,” he said. “Then do an internship with Elon Musk, and then I’ll probably get my PhD at MIT. And then I think I’ll start working at either NASA. Or SpaceX.”
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