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[quote=Anonymous]A few observations re elite college dominance in "prestigious" hiring, insofar as it ever was a dominance. Elite in this context means Ivy+.

It's definitely changing. The brand name of the elite schools have weakened through the substantial changes in student demographics in the last 20 years. The upper 50% of elite students remain elite and sought after. However, they disproportionately go into grad school (stem/medicine/law) or get funneled into a handful of elite career tracks re consulting firms. The bottom 50% of elite college students have become too variable to be reliable. They get a shot after graduation with the first job, but if they don't succeed at it, then the benefit of their college diploma is gone forever.

Same principle above now also applies to grads of elite grad programs and law schools. Even Harvard/Yale law grads are increasingly breaking apart into the upper and bottom 50%. The name alone is less reliable a gauge for competence and professionalism in the workplace.

The hardest and most competent workers in corp America are female grads of large state universities. They increasingly dominate. Many were in sororities.

The highest achieving in terms of generating revenues are still men, both white and South Asian.
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