My take away from this is privilege is just code for what they term in the corporate world as "soft skills". Some students have access to programs, or mentors t

My take away from this is privilege is just code for what they term in the corporate world as "soft skills". Some students have access to programs, or mentors that teach them how to maximize inter-personal relationships and build good problem solving skills outside of the core course work they'll need to study for. I realize this is kind of off topic, but there's something else I notice when I tag along with recruiters to schools. Even though recruiters sometimes attempt to recruit at "non-elite" schools, or whatever you want to call them, they are always unable to successfully recruit candidates in the numbers they need to make it worthwhile. "Maybe it'll be be better next year, but doubtful" they say. I've seen it. The students are definitely hungry and passionate for landing a job in tech at these schools, even asking us what they need to do. Yet they just don't seem to know-how to prepare and be successful at the interviews. We try to coach them, but we also have other schools to visit and we only have so much time. I mostly lay the blame on these schools though and not the students.