But also… the other half come from prestigious colleges, and the way you solve the first half is not by not hiring the second half.
And to give advantage to candidate from right wing and conservative institutions. Because that is the oficial state ideology now.
The same pool where connections, rather than merit count? Where the candidates have (probably) been coddled by their loaded parents all their lives? Where they fake disabilities in order to get affordances such as better housing, "support" animals and so on?
I mean realistically you don’t know how good an engineer is until they get on projects and you see their work. But that’s true for Harvard too,