I have pretty high expectations of my DD14/8th grader, sometimes excessively so. But I was stunned with the 770/790 SAT score that came back yesterday. M800 actually wouldn't have surprised me - she made a silly mistake flipping a numerator/denominator - but a 100+ point increase in Reading/Writing over last year was a shock. State Top 15 in Mathcounts and You Be the Chemist, and a 4th place trophy at Academic Games Nationals are rounding off quite a year.