[quote=AN]I’d love to see stats of 7+ figure net worth and the HS they graduated from. I’d also love to see divorce rates and suicide rates too.[/quote]

Probably much more correlated to parental achievements and outcomes than those of high school classmates. I am a firm believer in the power of genetics. Hard to tease out, though, as successful parents will often raise their children in above average school districts. Freakonomics has a couple of great articles that relate to this point. For example, academic achievement is correlated to the number of books in a home …..even if the children living there don’t read the books. Reason: Smart parents tend to buy more books and also tend to have smart kids. I am beginning to understand where calvin’s idea of predestination came from (although i don’t subscribe to the philosophy). Also – there was a finding that kids who watched “Baby Einstein” videos ended up achieving less well academically than those who didn’t watch. I have my theories about that one – ie low achieving parents more interested in pushing smart baby toys on their children. Nature seems to trump nurture in many instances ….