He is very set on engineering, and on doing so in a humanitarian context. He’s wanted to be an engineer since he was a tiny little kid playing with blocks. The type of engineering has changed on and off, and I could imagine him deciding he’d rather be a mechanical engineer who works in humanitarian contexts, but I really have trouble imagining him choosing something other than engineering. The fact that he’s a kid who is super flexible on so many other things, but is insistent on this one thing, makes me think it’s not going to change.
His 9th grade, zero prep, PSAT was 1500, so I do think he has a good shot at National Merit when the “real” version roles around in junior year.