Because employers love credentialism and can discriminate based on college.

Your ability to break into the highest levels of many fields depends on that Harvard degree vs a public or 2nd tier private school.

What’s stopping you from making a groundbreaking company of your own and becoming an employer yourself? Employers can hire who they want and if Harvard’s selection of candidates does not meet their standards, you can be sure that employers are going to stop hiring from Harvard.

Nothing. I can’t afford Ivy League people, 90% of the people we fire are from public colleges.

So if they just decided not to admit a certain race of students entirely, that’d be okay because they’re a private institution?

A private university that receives $600 million a year in federal funds.

This is a good counterpoint, but they could probably survive without it. I don’t agree with discrimination and don’t think it’s right, but I do feel like Harvard should do what it wants if it didn’t take a single dollar of public funds.