Part of knowing what college a person went to is a proxy for knowing their likely SAT scores which is a proxy for an (illegal) IQ test. So it's a moderately eff

Part of knowing what college a person went to is a proxy for knowing their likely SAT scores which is a proxy for an (illegal) IQ test. So it's a moderately effective workaround. Of course, college can be gamed in a lot of different ways (family money, connections, hustle) that do not relate specifically to IQ or to job performance (and others that, of course, do).