The software focus of this comment aside, there is something to be said about how primary and secondary education has become hyper-optimized cram school grindfe

The software focus of this comment aside, there is something to be said about how primary and secondary education has become hyper-optimized cram school grindfests among a certain strata. Students are expected to max out not only the SATs but their entire candidate profiles in a bid to get into increasingly competitive universities even as the worth of upper education credentials becomes increasingly deflated. In some areas, preschools become competitive for parents to vie for to begin their children’s educational careers off right. This applies to all manner of white collar professions, not only engineering. Albeit then again maybe this is a Silicon Valley-centric phenomenon, and only an elite striver subset (Palo Alto, Cupertino, Saratoga, Contra Costa County) of the region.