Over Analyzing Supernatural.

This is what comes from paying way too much attention to detail and from rewatching things over and over and over again.

The fact that Sam Winchester got enough of an education to actually get into any college, let alone Stanford, is really freaking amazing.  Especially with all the moving around that they did.  Transferring of records from school to school, staying at one for at most a year.  He was VERY lucky.  Applying himself could only do so much. And the fact that he took the LSAT after his second year of college is confusing as you usually take that after your third year but we're supposed to ignore that.

This is where my brain came up with this.  We know that Dean has a GED which means he didn't actually graduate from high school, he finished it later.  That's pretty understandable given the situation growing up.

I was born Oct of 78 and Dean was born Jan of 79 which means that we would have been in the same school year.  In the 4th season episode "After School Special", Dean is still in school in November of 97.  This means that he was held back because he should have graduated in May of 97 like I did.  Also the fact that Sam is 4 years younger and they're both in high school proves that Dean was held back.  That's because Dean didn't bother to apply himself.  He knew he was going to be a hunter.  He knew that he didn't really need all that much of an education.  So what's the point, right?

We know from various clues that Dean is actually very intelligent.  He reads a lot.  He read and understood Vonnegut.  I haven't even touched Vonnegut and I have a high IQ.   So it stands to reason that in a different life, under different circumstances, Dean could have gone to college.  He could have had a really great job making lots of money.  But he likes being a hunter.  And he has the education that he needs for being a hunter.  He knows most of the lore by memory, and what he doesn't know he has in books.  While he hates research, he can do it without any problem.

It really irritates me that Sam looks absolutely surprised every time Dean knows something that proves how smart he really is.  It's like Sam is constantly underestimating Dean just because he never graduated high school.  But he didn't need to graduate high school because he knows everything that he needs to know to stay alive.  Even if he has died like 136843546834354 times (remember "The Mystery Spot") .


This is what happens when a reasonably intelligent person over analyzes a fictional TV show when thinking about their favorite character on said show.  Sometimes I hate the way my brain works.