what is your high school class valedictorian doing?

[Anonymous]

Something very complicated having to do with quantum physics.

[Anonymous]

Went to an Ivy, got a PHd and now teaches English at a university

[Anonymous]

Pharma

[Anonymous]

Doctor

[Anonymous]

Ivy League PhD working at NIH, married with two kids and dog in suburbia.

[Anonymous]

She is a pediatric nurse practitioner.

[Anonymous]

TV news anchor for a local station in a midwestern city.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea. I can't even remember who our valedictorian was, tbh.

[Anonymous]

She worked at the local grocery store after college (we went to the same very good school) and sometimes I’d run into her when I went back home. She was trying to get in to the police academy...not sure if she did. I think I was #18 in my class and ended up pretty well. The difference was that she had a super effed up home life. It’s too bad.

[Anonymous]

Government lawyer. Love it. I've never been that interested in money, other than having enough to live comfortably; and while I am still very driven, I made the choice about 10 years ago to be the best I could be at a job that was compatible with raising a family, rather than pursuing the most prestigious choice possible and having no life outside of work. This meant rising to the top at a less prestigious agency, which happened more by accident than design -- I thought I was stepping off the treadmill entirely but it didn't pan out that way. Sometimes I regret not pursuing a more challenging job at a more prestigious agency but I would not be able to do that and spend time with my family the way I want to. And the people at my agency are smart and lovely.

[Anonymous]

My high school valedictorian was reasonably high up at LinkedIn when Microsoft bought them, so I think she did pretty well! In general the people I remember being super smart in high school are doing pretty impressive "smart people" things (many are full professors, a few went to silicon valley). A lot of the bright and popular boys are now working at hedge funds or on Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Graduated 2004 from a large high school in California.

#1-3 went to ivy league schools and became doctors--an OBGYN, a heart surgeon, and a GP. I was #4 and teach middle school math. Apparently there's a huge drop in salaries if you aren't top 3, lol.

[Anonymous]

I’m 33 and the top 3 in my school (a top 10 high school in the US) are still in med school. Very specialized surgeons. One is something in obstetrics and I don’t know what the other two are in. All 3 went to 3 Ivy League schools and had near perfect SAT scores.

[Anonymous]

I don’t remember who that person was but the salutatorian went to med school but dropped out (turns out she was bipolar), had a baby, went back to teach at our alma mater, was teacher of the year the first year then got a dui and was fired. Not sure what happened after that.

[Anonymous]

Went to a "W" school. All the straight-A kids ended up going to Ivy League schools and ended up as lawyers and doctors. They followed the standard path, worked hard, and studied well.

The most successful people money-wise were the B students. They were the hustlers who started companies and got into risky careers like private equity. I know of at least 5 multi-millionaires among the B-crowd. None in the A-crowd.