Remember that the schools, at least where I come from, have a system in place to select the "winners", so the correlation is not surprising. I remember in 9th g

Remember that the schools, at least where I come from, have a system in place to select the "winners", so the correlation is not surprising. I remember in 9th grade, and possibly even before that, it was already starting to become pretty clear who was going tend towards being more successful in life and the schools pushed those people into the college direction. Certain groups who were less favored for success were actively prevented from going into college, even, by way of not being given the necessary credits. So, it is kind of like you choosing race horses, ignoring all the horses with broken legs, and then proclaiming the only reasons the horses with broken legs did not win was because they were not selected by you to win. Perhaps it is just because the horses had broken legs?