People who graduated HS at least 10 years ago: Who was "most likely to succeed" in your high school and where are they now?

1. The kid voted most likely to succeed in our school grew up in a poor, single parent household with all the same challenges faced by many. Dude got out, went to the army, became president of his class at Westpoint, served 2 tours (I believe) in Afghanistan, then went to Harvard Law, became president of his class, and is now about to graduate and (current plan) is to come back to our city and run for mayor. Growing up, he seemed not much more special than the rest of us but holy smokes. So freakin proud of this guy
   — manythanksmmk


2. Graduated 34 years ago (DEAR GOD HOW HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG??). The most likely to succeed female was my lovely cousin. She got great grades and was accepted to our state college. She went for a year, then got knocked up by her boyfriend from back home. They’ve been on and off ever since, have five kids total now. He’s a piece of shit and it’s a horrible, toxic relationship. Nobody’s heard from the most likely to succeed dude in twenty years. He left our hometown one day and never looked back. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a success. [oh God now I’m thinking about the rez fondly and reminiscing this is not good...]
   — myogr


3. Still in our little town, with a really shitty job. Book smarts are great, but this person has no people skills whatsoever.
   — SlickMaster69






4. Our "Most likely to succeed" came from a very strict Asian family. We were fairly good friends throughout school but fell out of touch after graduation and I left for the military. The next time I saw him was last year at our 10 year reunion, his picture was on the memorial table. Turns out he ended up committing suicide his junior year of college, just couldn't handle all of the stress anymore.
   — BlueFalcon3725


5. Where I went to school we didn't have "most likely to succeed" or anything like that, but one girl I still remember had the brain the size of a planet. We were pretty good friends at the time (same social circle) and it was ridiculous how brilliant she was. She got 11 A*s for her IGCSEs, and got halfway through her international baccalaureate when she was offered a full scholarship to a great university in Europe. This girl was pretty, funny, smart, socially adept. She played several sports, and several instruments, spoke several languages, and somehow still had a really active social life and would party with the rest of us. Really one in a million person if you ask me. I found out as I got to know her that her mother was kind of a psycho and *very* controlling. One time we were playing squash together one weekend, just for a bit of fun, and half way through a game, her mother appears out of nowhere, throws her out of the squash court and closes the door with just the two of us in there. She starts fucking crying and saying, "Why won't my daughter listen to me? Why can't she do anything right!?" - I've honestly never been more confused in my life. I don't know WTF more she wanted out of the girl. We lost touch pretty quick after she headed off to uni, but I still keep track of her on the social media we share. Looks like she's doing music full-time now and appears at least to be semi-successful at it in the European counties she's been touring for the last few years. I've no doubt she'll be fine whatever she does.
   — __notmyrealname__


6. Oddly enough, some of the brightest students went on to college and got jobs in decent but fairly average fields. Some who were thought to be fairly bright tanked and just couldn’t quite adult as well as was thought they would. One student from a younger class than me was a really nice kid. Decent student but excelled after high-school and went on to develop software that was widely used in the early days of the internet. He’s currently a verrrrrry wealthy guy.
   — MrFeexit






7. The guy is doing really well, makes good money as a plumber, married with their first child on the way. The girl that was most likely to succeed has about three baby daddy’s and works at a circle k sooooooo...
   — snifferpippetz


8. There were 2 from my class. They guy went to an Ivy League school, got a finance job and traveled the world. Then he started a business that he sold for some good money. The girl married me.
   — PureDelight1


9. Graduated 17 years ago. An old friend was one of the people tied for valedictorian. She went to the local University, graduated with an engineering degree and is now a comic book illustrator. I think she's pretty happy, so I would say that's successful.
   — DJClapyohands






10. I’m 3 months shy of 10 years, but the guy winner is one of the youngest senior Vice Presidents of the multinational bank he works for and the girl winner does some investigative reporting for a top-25 media market’s CBS or NBC affiliate.
    — TodayKindOfSucks


11. A kid who was very nice and very smart. He's a doctor now and travels a lot. Seems to have a good life. But for the most part where I grew up in the PNW there's a line of demarcation where the kids who got out are doing good and living life and the kids who stayed and didn't go to college are struggling.
    — evergreenthrow