[wintertime]

The acceptance of the concept that formal education is desirable at any cost ......
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Re-educating employers would help as well.

If it doesn't require a college degree to be President of the United States of America ( for example: Harry S Truman) then it does require one to be the events planner or check-in clerk at a high end hotel.

Suggestion:
1) Encourage employers to use SAT/ACT scores and internships to identify bright and teachable potential employees.

2) Encourage employers to remember that most jobs done in the U.S. are learned on the job.

[Hulka]

“1) Encourage employers to use SAT/ACT scores and internships to identify bright and teachable potential employees.”

Using that as a metric I would never have become a fighter pilot, a Pentagon gunrunner, a strategic and crisis action planner and now, post USAF retirement, a college instructor.

Using SAT/ACT as a defining characteristic when the person being evaluated is young will result in vast numbers of “young” (basically immature) people being pigeonholed unfairly and boxed out from greater challenges and opportunities.

[gogeo]

Hiring college grads is defensive in nature.

Any criteria used for hiring must resist hostile hindsight.