The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

by Bryan Caplan

striking illustration from the job market: while employers rarely request applicants’ standardized test scores, applicants remain free to provide these scores on their resumes. Few do. What do applicants have to lose? The word on the street: putting high scores on your resume suggests you’re smart but socially inept.25 You’re doing something that’s “simply not done.” As I once heard a professor berate a graduate student: “Putting your GRE scores on your resume make you look like a student.