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I attended a rural high school that provided a subpar education (including STEM). I was not exactly "college ready" and graduated not having even taken a calculus course. I was at a disadvantage entering college, since pretty much everyone I knew attended a magnet school or a well-taught high school where their teachers were PhDs in the field. High schools that offered upper level mathematics courses. Kids like this very well may have already taken data structures/algorithms, linear algebra, real analysis, abstract algebra etc. prior to entering college with 30+ credit hours and 5s on all AP exams. Compare those kids to someone like me that never had the chance to even take an AP class... Anyways, how did I turn out? I completed a pure math degree, but it took me much longer to get there since I started much further behind.