It IS wrong if he doesn’t qualify this blanket statement w/r/t industry, function, geography, competitive environment, specificity of a particular role or special skills, etc.
I’ve worked in corporate recruiting for decades (mostly large, multi-nationals) and Selingo is reflecting a particular bias with his statement unless he qualifies it BIG TIME. There are “generic” type entry level roles which a college graduate (or not) from a wide range of institutions and experiences could competently fill. And then there are those where your typical grad would fail miserably because the skillset required to even perform adequately is so complicated. And the success metrics for the company and the role go so far beyond what your “typical college grad who majored in business” could handle.
Do you think all those BYU graduates end up employed because Salt Lake City is such a huge hiring magnet? Some stay local- and some get recruited all over the place because by the time a BYU student is a senior, he or she has done a mission overseas, has likely lived in a variety of places and situations, and is fluent– frequently in a “strategic” (i.e. hard to fill) language.
Do you think all those University of Tulsa grads who major in Cyber end up in Oklahoma? They do not. They end up in DC, Boston, El Segundo, Batavia IL, or at any one of many federal research and security centers around the country- some locations you’ve heard of (Argonne, Los Alamos) and some you haven’t heard of.