You intuition is correct. If you dive into the behavioral genetics literature, you'll find that the school you go to and how long you go to school doesn't affec

You intuition is correct. If you dive into the behavioral genetics literature, you'll find that the school you go to and how long you go to school doesn't affect your life outcomes. Instead, both your life outcome as well your "quality" and duration of schooling are all driven by genetics and random stuff in the environment (actually, what is called non-shared environment, so stuff outside of your family, school, neighborhood, etc.).