@lfrancis95 I think you summed it up perfectly. My sophomore D - always academically driven - is doing very well as a STEM major at an extremely tough university. Working her tail off, but then she did that in high school, too. She’s figuring out how to get what she needs from a large university with a lot of resources but not a lot of hand holding. Club director, undergraduate research, and a paid summer internship: not too shabby for a kid from a mid-level public high school.