"I think she's really happy that this is over and, remember, she is a 16-year-old girl still and she's a high school student, " he said.

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The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl's grammar school in Essex, England.

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In high school, she was the only girl to take physics, and she later went on to attend MIT when the student ratio was 10:1 women.

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