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