In May, Ronald McCullough Jr. will graduate college at the same age most students are still early underclassmen.
But doing things ahead of schedule is not unusual for the 19-year-old, whose “genius-level intelligence” allowed him to skip second grade and graduate from Maynard Jackson High School at 15, according to a news release.
McCullough enrolled in Clark Atlanta University at 16, and will soon graduate with honors with a B.S. in biology.
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Yet, he said he doesn’t consider himself a genius.
“I was placed in a setting for my love of learning to manifest,” McCullough said in the release. “Much was expected of me and there was little room for disappointment.”
Post-graduate engineering programs including N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T) and the University of Hawaii have tried to recruit the “future astronaut,” the release said.
McCullough, whose mother graduated from the former Clark College, plans to enroll in the biological/agricultural engineering program at A&T.
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