“… so obviously somone who wants to learn full time is first class”
Would that this statement were true! I know a sad number of boys who are anything BUT first class, but they are all in Yeshivah full time. First class is in the middos of a person. Derech Eretz kadma l’Torah. Just because someone is learning, does not make him automatically FC. It makes him a full time learner, and he does get props for THAT, though.