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How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

To say that Justin Portela never imagined himself as a highly paid business consultant at McKinsey & Company would be an understatement. He didn’t have a privileged upbringing, to put it mildly, and in 2018, when he first walked onto the Stanford University campus, Portela, like most incoming freshmen, was unaware such careers even existed. […]


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