Whitney Kropp, a self-described outcast with just a handful of close friends at Ogemaw Heights High School, was picked to be the female representative of the sophomore class royalty.

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But the idea that got them both excited popped up in a sophomore marketing class.

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Students in Joycelin Palacio-Cayetano's sophomore biology class at Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley, Calif. used Immex to investigate how genetic mutations occur.

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Far from sliding into the dreaded sophomore slump, Kanye West pushes further towards the head of the pop music class.

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