It doesn't seem surprising these kids are doing well--they're already top students, money's no worry, and they're hooked into the a successful social network.

It doesn't seem surprising these kids are doing well--they're already top students, money's no worry, and they're hooked into the a successful social network. However, these ~100 examples don't characterize college dropouts. There are roughly 30 million total dropouts, and most of them are unemployed and poor: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/the-myth-of-the-successful-college-dropout-why-it-could-make-millions-of-young-americans-poorer/273628/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/the-myth...