jnMissouri
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IMO, success in high school and even college is more determined by your parents rather than you. A lot of these kids come from very sheltered and wealthy enough families. The partying and all of that is really in the nice suburban schools since no one wants to go to the ones in the hood for that.
After college, your success is more determined by you than your parents.
College doesn't make people successful by itself. Of all my friends, I'm the only one who made it. I was making it before I even graduated. A billionaire once said during an interview, if you can't make it without a degree, college won't help. If you can, a degree will propel you further.
As far as after college. I know a few people who went to Ivy league schools. One of my gf's went to University of Chicago, #6 ranked college, even better than Harvard, for her MBA, a few went to Yale or other such schools. A guy I knew went to MIT for undergrad and grad school. Become a big wig at Big Tech, now a venture capitalist...
The ones who went to Ivy league schools, all but one had a free ride from their rich parents.
I grew up poor and went to average schools.