You have to be white-listed to be allowed to make a proposal, and you have to look at the criteria to see if he fits this trope/category, and having seen the show he absolutely does not. Ignoring the fact he cares for his mother, it's made very clear by everyone in universe that he would of never became evil if he became a student instead of being forced out by his mutant-hating mother who Inducturated him into becoming a self-hating mutant.
The whole reason why he didn't redeem himself was because he was so consumed by that inducturation that he would rather die than that. Thus, he is tragic because of this.