Certain “elite” schools also seem to specialize in feeding their grads to Teach For America, or to graduate school, or to medical school, or to careers as writers and artists.
Is this a reason to bash the schools, bash the students, or bash Wall Street? Most kids make decisions about what to do post-grad based on a host of factors- their own interests/passions/talents being the most obvious ones. Deresiewicz has his own axe to grind… but I don’t know a lot of people who put on a blindfold and get led down a corridor to their new office without ever stopping to ask “where are we going?”
Some people believe anything they read.
There are so many “elite” young college grads working in DC (not just as lowly staffers on the Hill- but at non-profits, working in museums, federal agencies, etc.) that many colleges have their biggest alumni events/outreach efforts there. Not NY. And not wall street/banking, but public service and the not-for-profit sector.