We went to the same (absurd) public HS and same grad school. Your take is spot on for our HS, but all of those kids became PMs at tiktok, traders at JS, and EMs at McKinsey. I've almost never seen this type go on to do quality research, and I've seen none of them do physics PhDs
Most people don't actually know the lengths parents will go to try to raise an academic superstar. In this post, I will detail the life of the average thoroughbred in STEM PhD programs at a top university. The thoroughbred lives a difficult life full of enormous amounts of
