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@melvin123
There are smart kids at just about every college. D1 went to the state U (ranked around #200). Why? Because it was free. (All instate high school grads who had 2.5 GPA got a full tuition for 8 semesters. Those with a 31 ACT and 3.9 GPA got full tuition, full R&B plus an annual stipend of $1000. Hard to pass that up. And alot of very bright students don’t. )

She had a classmate in her major (physics) who was co-authoring papers in astrophysics with Kip Thorne as college sophomore. Another classmate she knew & was friends with (biochem major) was publishing first author papers in Nature by her junior year. There are kids she knew who went on to MD/PhDs at places like WashU and UCSF/Berkeley.

So don’t think that just because a college isn’t labelled as elite that there aren’t smart kids attending. There are.

BTW, imagine having that physics guy in every single one of your major and required co-req classes (math, chemistry) for 4 years–which D1 did. Nice guy, but he was total curve buster…

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And then there are late bloomers.
My friend of 30 years, Robert was paid $1m/yr salary to work for a commercial rocket launcher after his retirement at NASA. He was the world first space ship director who landed a space craft on an Asteroid. He was paid $1M to write his memoir for those years at NASA as well. He was in the news all the time when the project was in progress.

Robert started in a small community college because during his youth, he got interested in chasing “girls” and did not work too hard academically. Eventually, he got admitted to UIUC and finished his Phd at Stanford, then he rise among all the top scientists a project director at NASA.