PB
>how in the blue Hell did a high school in a town of 13 thousand people crank out a covert CIA operative, a director of the CDC, a NASA climate program director, a Lt. Col at the Pentagon, and a deputy Attorney General ALL between 1981 and 1985?
At least some is generational, maybe most. Also, you'll get tapped for a potential position coming out of high school, also college, imagine how many would ask you to the prom coming out of an upper-echolon tech/sci uni. Gettum while they're young and ignorant. They'll be trapped for life.