I've posted this in comments a few times, may deserve its own thread:
I have a friend that is a project leader at a very prominent engineering firm. They run internships and used to take applicants from Harvard, MIT, and more local state schools. Over the past decade or so they have completely dropped the Harvard & MIT students. He said they're useless. Even in these STEM fields they don't teach the students how to do actual engineering. Instead, the students started coming in and demanding to do projects on "racism in engineering" and garbage like that. They refused to do the projects that they were brought in to do, and whatever basic engineering tasks they were assigned to do, they fucked up. We're talking extremely basic stuff here. Everyone got tired of hearing about 'patriarchy' and 'race theory', so they took all the internship slots and started giving them to the state school kids that probably come from working-class backgrounds. Those kids actually had work-ethic and knew what they should.
I've worked in high tech for 40 years. It's gotten so bad the last 15 or so that companies like the one I work for depend on engineers from India, Nigeria, Israel, Taiwan, etc because those coming out of US schools are completely incompetent. It's not about cheap labor as these guys are payed just like those born here. It's about finding people that can do the job. The world only produces so many people that can do what we do. It a crime that our school system is destroying these kids minds. Btw, most of the foreign born that I work with aren't H1-B1, they work hard for their US citizenship.