A 17 year-old can be very impressive, if you’re 14
I went to a high school with about 3,000 students. I do not remember the exact numbers, but I am sure that there were just over 600 in my graduating class. To have 3,000 students and 600 graduates in any given year, each class had to be smaller the next. To account for drop-outs, I would assume the classes in my high school had to be something like 900, 800. 700 and 600. I would have thought that a freshman class of 900 would have yielded a senior class of more than 600, but the assumed numbers are not unrealistic. …