The excessively disappointing Nature of "Ivy Day"

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For instance, I am really shocked when I saw this post

Employers that reject applicants because they started at community college before completing a BA/BS at a university

So this came up in another thread, where it is claimed that if the student in question started at a community college and then transferred to University of Virginia to finish a bachelor’s degree in CS, some employers would reject them based on starting at a community college: If “quant” means “elite quantitative finance”, perhaps that is not surprising, since elite finance has a reputation of being college-elitist to begin with. But it does not seem to be especially common otherwise in computing hiring, or is it? How about other kinds of hiring? To the extent that employers are college-elitist in hiring, and reject those who started at community college, that suggests that those employers are implicitly highly concerned about the state of the applicant as a high school student, when their high school credentials and parental finances and circumstances determine the name of the college they start at.