SEAN FISCHER

From Stanford to Harvard, MIT to UC Berkeley, a new generation is leaving elite schools in droves, convinced that the future belongs not to the credentialed but to the self-taught. Now, the college dropout is no longer an outlier. In the right circles, it has become a kind of anti-credential—an archetype of prestige in its own right.

From Stanford to Harvard, MIT to UC Berkeley, a new generation is leaving elite schools in droves, convinced that the future belongs not to the credentialed but to the self-taught. Now, the college dropout is no longer an outlier. In the right circles, it has become a kind of anti-credential—an archetype of prestige in its own right.