Interesting that the author uses office hours as the determiner of likelihood that someone attended an elite school before college. I never attended office hou

Interesting that the author uses office hours as the determiner of likelihood that someone attended an elite school before college. I never attended office hours, but that's because I tailored my class schedules every semester to maximize blocks of hours that I could use for part time work. I worked for the college and later for a tech company. I was lucky that my schedule could vary between semesters, but I was still limited to time blocks during a standard business week. Typically did 20 hours a week of work with a 15 hour course-load. So office hours almost never lined up with my work schedule. Sure it would have been nice to have enough of a rapport to ask for extensions on papers, but I passed my classes anyhow and the grades I got for particular classes have never once been in a factor in my career. I don't regret my decision to prioritize work over college. The professional skills, especially the soft skills I learned from years of experience put me way ahead of my peers when it came to finding employment and moving through the ranks. The relative financial security work provided and being able to comfortably afford to live off-campus independently (low CoL area) was my initial motivator, but it was more than that eventually. I just felt respected and useful when working, and the opposite of that in almost every schooling environment.