I remember three years ago I was doing a shower wall in a cold basement and troweling too-stiff tile mortar on the wall, an utter despair of the soul welling up in me, wondering how my life had come to this from what I imagined it would be when I was in college, when my parents celebrated every academic achievement with enormous pride.And I'm a big guy with a long history in DIY, an extensive family history in renovation.

High schools in Columbus have a strong sporting as well as academic spirit.  

Opened an IRA and started investing in equities around the same time.Ultimately I put the business on hold due to academics and shifted my focus towards other pursuits.

The people I have met that were home schooled were academically smart as heck and good people but reduced exposure to real world social skills, especially in peer groups, caused them to be severely lacking in their early years and thus were years behind in that department.Not all though, one set of parents made that an important part of their home schooling program and the kid could read someone faster then a ghetto con man and quickly let me know I had misread someone and saved me some time and money.Point is real estate brokering or real estate investing is a people business and that is where you should focus be it college or the workplace.

Durham School of the Arts (grades 6-12) is highly regarded for art & academics- it requires a lottery for entrance; both my girls attended. 

Opposing fractional reserve banking is an exceedingly fringe idea these days, because FRB is accepted as the way banking must work, from academics to industry.

I teach my kids to do the same with their academics.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, while you are beginning to smell the wonderful aroma we refer to as the power of RE, you have not been around long enough to know where the aroma is coming from - or something like that lol.I am hoping that these houses are just an academic exercise  - you are not ready yet to take action. 

:)I think you should vote for my simpler way of analyzing the deal :)I agree all this is academic.

These results have broad implications for market efficiency and the implementability of academic factors."