The CIA is famed for exactly this problem. Through the 1990s at least, the CIA recruited heavily from Ivy League colleges, and Yale especially. https://www.cti

The CIA is famed for exactly this problem. Through the 1990s at least, the CIA recruited heavily from Ivy League colleges, and Yale especially. https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/news-people/article/The-CIA-wanted-the-best-and-the-brightest-They-17045591.php https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/news-people/ar... I think that any clearance-requiring sector would be prone to this sort of problem. Like the defense industry. Does the whole clearance process weed out people who are non-conformist in the wrong ways? Sure, some of those "wrong ways" are genuine problems, but a lot of them aren't. It's just easier to clear entirely bland, dedicated churchgoers who have not had any spark of an idea to try different things. The Secret Service is said to like to hire guys who played football in high school or college because of their presidential defense doctrines. That weeds out a lot of other sports types.