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Bingo. Critical mass. Someone to push and someone to push her. Or maybe more accurately someone to stretch and someone to stretch her. I’ve said before that D describes Rhodes as follows : 20% of the kids are as smart as the smartest kids anyplace she’s been, 60% are real smart, and the other 20% aren’t stupid.</p>
<p>The other part of the equation is the profs. D was comfortable from her meetings that they were top notch across the board and especially for her plans in Bio and Chem. She had met with several. Rhodes prof’s are very engaged but VERY demanding. Lots of work and tough graders so far. Mean and median test scores 75. :eek: Maybe 10% A’s at most, some classes zero to one. D (finally) made an A- in her writing class on a paper and you’d have thought from the call home that she’d won a Pulitzer.</p>