Palantir wants to poach top high school grads with a new anti-college internship: 'Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination.' - Julia Hornstein, Business Insider

• Palantir launched a Meritocracy Fellowship for high school grads with top test scores. It challenges university admissions, saying "campuses have become breeding grounds for extremism and chaos." The fellowship comes as Trump's White House pressures elite colleges to cut DEI initiatives. The company just launched its Meritocracy Fellowship, a four-month, paid internship for recent high school grads not currently enrolled in college. Applicants need Ivy-League level test scores to apply — a 1460+ on the SAT or a 33+ on the ACT, 99th, and 98th percentile scores, respectively. Admission to the program, the job posting says, is awarded "based solely on merit and academic excellence."

https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-launches-anti-college-internship-for-high-school-grads-2025-4