He is a Gates Millennium Scholar, a Buick Achievers National Scholar, a KFC Colonel Scholar and a University of Michigan LEAD Scholar, honors netting him more than $1 million for school. Still, nearly every morning, he stops by the Engineering Learning Lab in the Chrysler Center to watch WJBK-TV (Channel 2) news and visit the collegenet.com website to apply for more scholarship money. The site has a $10,000 cap. He had reached $9,135.22 by Friday afternoon.
Colquitt, 22, isn’t greedy. He just believes you can never have too much money for college, you can never study too hard and you can never get up too early to catch that pesky worm. He wants other students to work as hard as he does, dream as much as he does. So besides studying engineering law and looking for alternative energy sources, he has written a book to encourage young people to go to college and tell how to get the money to go.
At Southfield Lathrup High School, “I was the guy everybody came to with their problems,” Colquitt said when asked why he wrote the book. “I was a really quiet, shy guy. But a lot of people asked me for advice. … So writing a book was something tangible I could give students.”