Originally Posted by Dude
Back then, a bachelor's degree wouldn't necessarily cost you 7 years of indentured servitude. And my competition pool for #1 wouldn't have been as deep, due to the demographic differences between my school and HK's (I probably would not have made the top 0.5% of my graduating class in HK's school without doing some math homework). So for these reasons, I would expect HK to see more and worse cases than the ones I saw.

Don't be so hard on yourself!

You may have still been able to avoid math homework entirely and make the top 0.5%.