Define, please, top tier...

Spinning through some of my favorite sites over the weekend, and I bumped into Mint -- www.mint.com -- as a unique money management tool. It's a great interface, very consumer-friendly, cool Web 2.0 thing and all that...

BUT we found something interesting, and puzzling for a startup to ask:

Take a look at this link to their job opportunities -- Mint Job Opps -- where they say they are looking for people to join their team with a "BS from a top tier school."

So, while I like what they're doing and it's always interesting to see what a startup is looking for when they hire employees, since "top tier" escapes definition, I'd suggest being a little more specific. In fact, maybe the job description should look a little more like this:

Needed: people who got a degree, from anywhere that encouraged them to learn how to think for themselves, how to be independent but still be part of a team, how to challenge their world view, how to argue, become critical, use logic to their advantage and still be a nice person who is capable of hard work.

How's that? Probably opens them up to candidates who might be better fits. Nothing against the top tier schools.