Yes, she's aware-- she lives with a pair of PhD physical scientists, after all.
What she really appreciated about it was the lack of superficial, shallow CRAP masquerading as "learning" at the high school level, the level of interactive engagement and intelligence of the other students (19-22yo honors students-- who are also mostly STEM majors at this institution). Personally, I'm pretty pleased by her readiness level, having been a science faculty member. She can THINK, and she's not afraid to defend those thoughts, or use them to explore further. She can remember content, but she can do a lot more than that, too, and she's tired of memorizing being shilled as "deep learning."
Remember, this is the set of geniuses that brought us (for an AP high school literature course, mind you):
T/F Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein for Lord Byron.
{head-desk}
