The real issue is that everyone, everyone(!) today graduates from high school, get accepted to a college and get a degree from college, even if they are dumb and have no skills.
As a former professor in a university, already many years ago, in the 90s, I was told I cannot failed students that clearly have failed the classes.
Instead, it should be as it used to be not long ago, which makes sense:
- to graduate high school was an accomplishment
- to get accepted to college was an accomplishment
- to survive college was an accomplishment
- to graduate college was an accomplishment
And the FEWER(!!!) who accomplished all this get jobs they deserved and their efforts pay off very nicely.
College degrees today, even from Harvard are mostly useless because too many get them, easily. Way too many... paid for with a lot of money.
I would summarize it this way: if I had to hire someone, and I have a candidate with zero experience from an Ivy League university versus a candidate with some experience, nice personality with either no degree or from a university I never heard of, guess who I would hire?
Lastly, I was in the corporate world for many years until my recent retirement. I had to deal with recent graduates from Ivy League universities. Over the years I clearly saw a sharp decline in the quality of those graduates. Most(!) of them are now as dumb as a piece of wood when asked to use their brain and what they learned to analyze something or logically make a decision. They work in a very robotic way.
I would like to think, and my experience shows that it does not matter where and what you learned. Most important is your natural capabilities, personality, self-discipline, and, above all motivation and interest in what you do! NOTHING beats that.
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