There seems to be a lot more 'going up a year' and 'sliding down a year' in the US education system. In the UK its pretty much fixed and you move on as you get older regardless. Really bright kids being advanced a year are a rarity.<br/><br/>I've made Su 18 and placed her in her final year of HS. She's too bright to have slipped back a year so if I have made a technical error I will either have to adjust her age or put her in the college instead. Sorry about my gaffe.<br/><br/>Thanks for the information DA and Rick. In the UK we have Colleges as well but they are places of a lower standard of higher education if you get my drift - often focusing on vocational courses. In that regard our Universities possibly equate to the likes of MIT, Yale, Harvard, Princeton and such. Pretty high brow elite learning centres for the gifted.<br/><br/>I'm pretty sure that at some point Urban said Rockford was a 40,000+ city in which case the map probably does not show it all but merely compresses the action into part of it for reasons of the GMs mapping sanity I had assumed.<br/><br/>Urban can you confirm how big the place is? Although it doesn't really matter too much I suppose.