We're going to end today with a call in for anybody who has ever hired anybody for anything.

And we're going to ask you to get candid about how you look at where they went to college.

And that is, of course, assuming that the positions you're hiring for would be for college

graduates.

But why do we ask this? Well, the conversation around affirmative action and legacy admissions

and everything leads to even deeper questions about our higher education system in general.

And one of those might be, why do we value the Ivy League and other considered elite

schools so much? And what kind of leverage does school name recognition or ranking really

have or should it have? So we're going to do a series of segments on the show, kind of

interrogating the idea of the rankings of schools and how that should affect what schools

people want to go to, how that might affect what schools people want to hire employees

from. And that's where we're going to start today.

We have a guest tomorrow lined up who's going to talk about the cost of different colleges

and what's worth it and why tuition and then ultimately student loans are going up so

much for what may or may not be worth it for the students and for society. So that's

going to be tomorrow's installment in this. But we're going to start it with a simple

call in for employers on the question, what are you screening for if you look at where

somebody went to college on their resume? 212-433-WNYC-212-433-9692. Be candid. You can

use an assumed name. It's okay. Have you screened for schools for any reason? I mean, everybody

puts their college degree on the resume if they have a college degree. So this is not

unusual at all, I assume. But maybe you've looked at a school name on a resume and thought,

oh, they went there. I bet they'd be good. Tell us about it. Tell us about that thought

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