There has to be an end to educational elitism - which is the driving force behind all student ranking (i.e. ‘I got into a high-ranking elite university’). The idea that college/university ranking correlates with how ‘smart’ graduating students are is dated, and inaccurate at best. This elitism has done great damage to our nation and society - almost to the level of being a scourge. Seriously.
Hillary's ‘career’ began when she got into Wellesley - which facilitated her getting into Yale Law. Had she gone to the University of Illinois, and then maybe DePaul School of Law, she might have eventually become active in Illinois politics, but would not have been on a Watergate investigative team, or had nearly as many opportunities as she has had. Nonetheless, her ‘elite’ Yale Law School education led her to flunking the DC bar. I'm sure most DePaul graduates would have passed it, as did many people from ‘lesser’ universities who passed the DC bar the same year she failed it.
At this point ALL of our Supreme Court Justices attended Yale or Harvard Law. No diversity of education. Often the same law Professors. Shared connections. This is supposed to make our nation stronger? This is supposed to give us more representative government? Of course it doesn't, but it is how things currently work.
One answer is mandatory exit testing, ranking graduates on what they learned, NOT where they attended classes. The DC bar exam was one such ‘exit test’, and clearly the Yale Law School student, Hillary, didn't do as well as her counterparts who went to ‘lesser’ universities but who passed the Bar.
The details of how to introduce and manage exit testing would have to be worked out, and it would have to be done in such a way that it was not run federally (or by government at all) and that no university had access to the questions. In the end, this type of testing would allow students who went to community colleges to compete with those who went to Princeton.
This is the only way we can achieve a truly fair system. Currently, the old cliche “It's not what you know, but who you know.”, rings way too true.
Professional Certifications, not code camp stuff like MS xyz certifications, should appear second to last.
After 10 years the college and major you earned should disappear from your resume altogether because it is no longer relevant nor is it indicative of your acquired abilities for future endeavors
Ivy league Alumni with few exceptions go in the circular file!