The CIA is like a white shoe law firm. It casts a wide net, but, it doesn’t hurt to graduate from an Ivy or a NESCAC college. Two of its 25 Directors attended Amherst and Williams and a Wesleyan grad with a storied past was recently treated to fulsome obituaries in all the major papers:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/david-forden-cia-case-officer-who-handled-pivotal-cold-war-operation-dies-at-88/2019/02/13/4384c19a-2fb2-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.c890e2c2ba8c