yekke2: Try reading Torah Umadda by R’ Norman Lamm. He goes through different approaches, including the Rambam and R’ Hirsch, showing why ALL knowledge really helps with understanding the Torah (and therefore isn’t really secular).
So it’s not learning secular subjects for the sake of it, it is all for Torah then. That is very different to what was written above.
I wonder how many from your class came from frum homes, or if your statistics are true at all. I’ve never seen anything like what you talk about, from any MO school
The fact that those are the people attending MO schools also says something, even if they are not the run-of-the-mill MOs.