Sir John Gurdon’s school report, quoted in #5, makes a good story, but it needs to be regarded as an outlier for several reasons. For one, he was a student at Eton. Marking and teachers’ comments there are unlike the grading and comments in the US. For a second, Gurdon was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, initially to study Classics, but he changed to Zoology. Even among Oxford Colleges, Christ Church is rather exclusive.