Linky.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/m...=1&sq=riverdale&st=cse&scp=1the students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence. They were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next time; to bounce back from a fight with their parents; to resist the urge to go out to the movies and stay home and study instead; to persuade professors to give them extra help after class.
I keep thinking about my friend from HS who is now head of surgery at a major hospital. She probably had the worst personal situation and the hardest load through HS yet she is probably the "most successful" in our class in terms of where she is at.
The class in front of us, the most successful is the #3 exec at a fortune 10 firm. He went through the honors AP program, but he also struggled in another area and was always coming up short because he lacked size. I remember him crying his senior year in the bathroom at a team dinner.
