When he graduated from the nation’s college for home-schoolers and ended internships first on Capitol Hill and then the White House, Simon Sefzik returned home to Ferndale, Washington, bitten by the political bug but more immediately focused on getting into law school.

“My goal was not to get into politics at this young of an age,” the 22-year-old national debate champion said. “My plan was to go to law school and to get married and have kids and maybe think about that many years down the road.”
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