SJSinNYC said:
“I’m not out of high school that long, and I can’t think of one person OTD from my high school class. I know quite a few from the local Bais Yaakov who are OTD. “
See this for the reason: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/the-making-of-talmidei-chachomim
Simply put, the German (similar to today’s MO) outlook is to reconcile Judaism with outside knowledge, whereas the Litvish outlook was extreme – Torah and nothing else – all or nothing. So if one can’t have it all, one might just say forget it all.