The TOP of the top

I am always amazed and impressed with the top 10 category in Riverside County academic awards. Once again our RUSD students did extraordinarily well with 4 of the 10 awards.  This continues to sustain my argument, that if you want opportunities to excel you won’t find a better place than RUSD (maybe equal, but not better).  On the other hand, I frankly am not sure how you can get GPAs north of 4.5 (all of them), new SAT scores of 2250 (which is in excess of the 99th percentile nationally), and apparently successfully created a foundation for world peace.  Extraordinary kids and great staff.  To give you some view of these extraordinary RUSD students (as I cannot adequately describe their talent, work, and dedication) I have included one such example below:

This student is a senior at an RUSD High School. The student is ranked first in their class and has a GPA of 4.75. The student’s activities and honors include:  summer research intern at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in Washington DC, volunteer intern at the UC Riverside Insect Immunity and Vector Biology Lab and the Biomedical Sciences Lab, founder and tutor of the chess club at Riverside Main Library, founder and tutor of the chess club at Riverside Orange Terrace Library, volunteer at Loma Linda Children’s Hospital, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, California State History Day finalist, and Rensselaer Medalist. They scored a 2,250 on the SAT.