One in four of them failed to get a bachelor’s degree within the next six years. A quarter of them wanted to become doctors, but none of them did. Forty percent of them make less than $50k a year. And four of them have been homeless. This wasn’t how things were supposed to turn out for the valedictorians from Boston’s high schools. The Boston Globe has a very interesting report on what happened to Boston’s top students and what that means for high schools in the area and beyond (and provides some fuel to the argument that we put way too much emphasis on high school grades). The Valedictorians Project.