> Those with less than perfect grades might go on to dream up blockbuster films like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg or become entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Barbara Corcoran and Richard Branson.

Alternatively, one might observe that modern colleges are for the mediocre, noting that college had little to offer the cited personalities and would likely have at best delayed their path, or more likely, prevent them from achieving what they did by socializing them into conformity and obedience of authority and convention.

We may certainly choose to daydream that "If only Steve Jobs and George Lucas had completed more college than they did, maybe they could have done something even more amazing", as if college has this effect on people. (Lucas has two degrees, so it's unclear what the article's author is really meaning to say about him, apparently that the author thinks he should have gone beyond a Bachelors.)