Don't Say 'Elite': Corporate Firms' New Pitch Is Meritocracy

As schools' admissions policies have become less aligned with IQ, employers have realized this and are now seeking high-IQ/performance candidates at other schools.

1. Instead of hiring from only 700 schools, now they hire from 1,500. There about 4000 degree-granting institutions in the US alone.[*]

2. I believe it when I see it

3. Meritocracy isn't All That. As Reinhold Niebuhr noted, privileged groups define merit as whatever supports their self-interest and work to establish those merits as universal values.

* https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1122