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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

She is a pediatric nurse practitioner.

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

Doctor

Pharma

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

Something very complicated having to do with quantum physics.