 like mediocre income area, your schools are significantly worse than somebody with more means. My stepsister is a literal rocket scientist, worked for JPL. She is now a professor of machine learning at a very prestigious state university. She went to school in Pueblo, Colorado, and she very nearly failed out as an undergrad because she did not have the math. She did not have the science background. Thankfully, there were a couple of really good professors that took her under their wing. She retook classes.