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Although it is nice to imagine a world in which the results of our youth do not meaningfully affect our future or an environment in which everyone is judged by their merits and on nothing else, this is terrible parenting advice for a young person. The reality is there is no launchpad that can propel you into a career of success, significance, and impact with the same consistency as a college degree from a top institution.

I've sent more than 1,000 students to the world's best universities, and like clockwork they land jobs at the types of institutions that offer life-changing opportunities: Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm; Google DeepMind, the world's leading artificial intelligence lab; McKinsey, the world's most prestigious management consulting firm; Goldman Sachs, the world's most competitive investment bank. Despite the fact that these companies have massive resources, they can't go on a worldwide talent search for every single position. Rather, they inevitably gravitate to recruiting from the same pool of highly selective colleges. These colleges have already done a lot of the heavy lifting for them in assessing vast swathes of young people and deciding who can get in and who gets rejected. The colleges take the process even further: forcing their students to compete head-to-head, ranking them numerically with a grade point average that enables firms to easily assess who thrived and who struggled once they hit these bastions of competition and academic excellence.