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 When Todd Coleman got to the University of Michigan, it wasn’t long before his friends in engineering classes noticed that he seemed better prepared for his advanced courses than they were. “They would joke that they wanted to send their kids to whatever high school I went to,” he says, chuckling at the memory.
In truth, Todd went to two high schools in Dallas – he attended Carter High School half of the day and the Science and Engineering Magnet School the other half of the day – and he had the benefit of a host of Advanced Placement Program* courses. He participated in a pioneering program called Advanced Placement Strategies, which provided financial incentives for students to take the more rigorous coursework as well as special training for the AP teachers.
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 John Souther would agree - math can take you places. In his case, math helped take him from the wide-open skies of Wichita Falls, Texas to the historic halls of Harvard University and a giant financial holding company in Chicago. At 23, he is an internal consultant at Sears Holding Company and says, “My job is looking at numbers and making sure they add up right, gaining new insights from those figures. You have to have some math background to find meaning from the numbers.”
“From what I’ve seen, the people who succeed are the ones who understand how things work. You gain true insights into everything by examining the data, so the ones who succeed are data-driven and have a strong background in math and science,” he explains. “Math and science are the true cornerstone of being able to always improve no matter what field you are in.”
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