So Penn State graduates are the most employable? That’s what the WSJ’s ranking would have you believe. These lists are taking all jobs into account. Graduates of elite schools don’t just want to be employed. They want to work at the best firms.
Also, the only schools listed on 2016’s 30 under 30 list are:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Yale, NYU, Berkeley, USC and Michigan.
Also, ASU has 10 times as many undergraduates as Duke does. So any analysis needs to be carried out on a per capita basis.
ASU is a perfectly respectable school but it doesn’t even come close to being able to provide the opportunities that Duke does.
Not that any of this matters in this particular instance. The student made a binding commitment to Duke. Anyone with a modicum of integrity wouldn’t back out now.