As an undergraduate, he volunteered for three months with Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India and after graduation, he worked as an on-street counselor with homeless adolescents in Boston with a non-profit youth agency. Scott earned a Master of Curriculum and Instruction as well as an M.P.A in domestic policy to learn more about the underlying systems that drove the educational outcomes he was trying to change. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.