Are all lives equal?

[Perplexity]

I'm not asking what defines human life.
The option you choose does affect your moral value on life because as you've already stated, "all lives are equal", however if you do choose the college kids then you've also denied the seniors the right to live.
That being from a moral standpoint.
Either decision you make is difficult, but if you look at it from an objective view, then I too would pick the college kids because they have more to offer to life than seniors that have lived most of thier lives out.
I feel the lives of those 99 college kids are more productive than the lives of 100 senior citizens.

I think you just phrased it the wrong way. The question you're asking is if everyone has the same entitlement to life, not if their lives are equal.