With exams under 100 days, classmates accuse Xandra of ditching school for Robert and taunt her low visible test score. A teacher summons her, scolds her habits and warns she'll end up at a no-name college if she keeps this up. Xandra admits her parents won't help and insists she'll control her own future. Later an admissions officer from Harbard offers her a place and a private escort; she refuses, saying she took the exam for her mother and wants a perfect ending. She reveals she deliberately showed 37; her real score is 748. She then feels watched.