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It's 1993, and Cedric Jennings is really a vibrant and ferociously decided honor student at Ballou, a higher school in another of Wa D.C.’s many unsafe communities, where in actuality the dropout rate is well into double-digits and only 80 students out-of over 1,350 feature on average B or better. At Ballou, Cedric has very little friends. He takes lunch in a class many times, plowing through the additional work he's requested for, comprehending that he’s truly fighting with children from different, tougher colleges. Cedric Jennings’s operating ambition–which is completely backed by his powerful mother–is to go to a high-trip college.In June 1995, after decades of near superhuman commitment, he understands that goal when he starts like a freshman at Brown University.