I keep thinking about my friend from HS who is now head of surgery at a major hospital. She probably had the worst personal situation and the hardest load through HS yet she is probably the "most successful" in our class in terms of where she is at.
The class in front of us, the most successful is the #3 exec at a fortune 10 firm. He went through the honors AP program, but he also struggled in another area and was always coming up short because he lacked size. I remember him crying his senior year in the bathroom at a team dinner.
How old are these people?