No matter how you slice admissions, there’s far more smart kids than there are slots at the ivies+MIT+Stanford+Caltech. You can bring demand in line with supply in two ways. The possible solutions on the supply side are improve the quality of state flagships and to use online classes to expand enrollment at the top colleges. The solution on the demand side is for hiring managers to get over the credential snobbery of assuming learning only happens at the top 20 colleges in the US.