It may have at one point, but Goodhart's Law is always looming in the background, waiting to fuck with any filter you care to come up with. In the last few gene

It may have at one point, but Goodhart's Law is always looming in the background, waiting to fuck with any filter you care to come up with. In the last few generations, the shift to college being viewed (and subsidized) as an effectively-required vocational training program has diminished the quality of education in degree programs expected to turn out workers while pushing a lot of people through who would not otherwise have been interested in higher education. It's no longer a very effective filter for quality applicants