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Consider the graduation rate of the top undergrad schools. Harvard is over 95%, Yale, Princeton and the rest not too far behind.

It used to be that it was hard to get through school, and not everyone made it. 30% or less for an engineering school used to get through with a degree.

With a graduation rate of over 90, where does the winnowing occur? Now, in the first job, that’s where.

I see young people who refuse to use a phone, they’ll text me or email, but call? And when I’m called in somewhere to do a brief, EVERYONE is stuck in a laptop, eyes peering over the top of the screen, if at all. I can babble for an hour then ask, any questions? And get none! No people skills, and that makes it difficult to pull a team together to actually DO something.

[Atlas Sneezed]

With a graduation rate of over 90, where does the winnowing occur?

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For elite colleges, it occurred in the admissions process. Because of the demand, these top schools can reject 90% of applicants, and still have every admitted with a 4.0 grade average and first chair violin or equivalent. Those students already know how to study and learn, and there’s no reason they should be weeded out.