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Noah Ready-Campbell

Biography

Noah Ready-Campbell says Exeter “ignited my desire to learn, and at a crucial time. I could have very easily burned out if I had stayed in public school and I am thankful every day that I did not.”

For years, Noah had dreamed of creating “a business in space” but he knew that meant being good at both science and the humanities. And he recoiled from math and science. Here, again, Exeter changed his life. There, he says, “I came to love physics and math as much as I had always loved reading and I developed a confidence and facility that has stayed with ever since.”

None of this change came easily. Leaving his close-knit family and supportive high school made for a “gut-wrenching” sophomore year at Exeter. Noah says he arrived intimidated, “sure that I would be one of the dumbest kids there.” As a result, he didn’t socialize. But slowly, and with help from his Young Scholar adviser, he turned his attitude around. He took up rowing and made varsity crew. He began writing a novella.

Today, Noah looks at things differently than he did a few years ago. He says “faith in oneself is essential to really achieving great things. There are so many setbacks and so many opportunities to give up that an almost unreasonable sureness that one’s dreams will come to fruition is a prerequisite for success.”

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