But connections are still orthogonal to skill in the job—unless the job is literally all about making and using connections that will help your company. And be

But connections are still orthogonal to skill in the job—unless the job is literally all about making and using connections that will help your company. And believing that college is a place you go to make connections is a mark of being born to privilege. The nominal and most fundamental purpose of college is to get an education: either to improve yourself generally, or to gain skills that you can actually use performing a job. Thus, even between two people who went to college, it is extremely likely that someone who went "to meet people and form connections" was lucky enough that they were born into a privileged family.