My high school graduating class was +/- 20. From that group there is/are: 1 nurse, 1 physician, 1 teacher, 2 engineers, 2 engineering technologists, 1 accountant, 1 actuary, 2 farm wives, 1 clerk, 1 manager at a major utility - and I've lost touch with the rest. Not too bad for a small town school.Me too--I graduated from a small class of 400. Just to add color, 7 of our top students went to Williams College. Then, and now, I think that's disproportionate from such a small class.
I had no need to take the SATs more than 1X, thanks to my public school education.
At any rate, I went to college for engineering. When I got there frosh year, I met a ton of kids from Brooklyn Tech, some from Bronx Science. I got a real lesson in what happens when kids come from an elite public HS and are hard workers. My first exam I scored a 29/100, which was good for a C. Suddenly, the kid from the class of 400 got introduced to a real world pecking order....
I only failed one exam in my life. Got 25% on a geology "true or false, wrong from right" exam. For anyone who has never taken one I can assure you they are the devil's own invention. That was a warm up for the final exam and I had already finished studying. I concluded I had used a faulty strategy, didn't open the book again, answered only those questions I absolutely knew were true or false on the final exam, and scored an A.