I became a dub several years after graduating from a university. I had a "professional" job which I continued in after I studied and got baptized. I have to say that when I came into the org I was viewed as a "prime catch." Later, I got flack over my education from a few people but it didn't hinder my "progress" at all - I was a MS a little over a year after baptism, an elder after 5. I was told later that the elders had quite a debate at the time about that rapid ascension but my "teaching ability" was the deciding factor. I think in reality they just wanted to put a college grad up there on the stage so they could say: See? Smart people buy this crap, too.
One of my memories on this topic is when a young man moved into our congo. He was about 23 and had recently graduated from college and moved to our town to take a job as an engineer. He had been serving as a MS in his previous congo just prior to moving and came with a positive letter. We appointed him, but not without quite a bit of discussion about "how this will affect our young ones."
Within days, he was being invited over to dinner at homes where there was an eligible daughter. A "prominent" elder's beautiful 18 year old pioneer was the lottery winner. They were married in less than a year. When I left back in 2003, he was an elder in another congo.
Another memory: When I was a newbie there was a elder who conducted the School. I was appalled at his lack of speaking ability and questioned the elder studying with me about it - he said the elders rotated into those positions annually (this was in the late 70s) and that it was a learning experience for the brother. Not long after that, the guy disappeared into what we liked to call "a life of debauchery" and was DF'd. About 5 years later, he was attending meetings at another KH and applied for reinstatement. The CO asked our congo to handle the hearing, since he was DF'd from our congo originally. Only one elder in our congo was on the original committee, so the CO picked the other two, including me.
There was some tough questioning at the hearing focused on what his current "works befitting repentance" were, and then a break was called. Everyone got up to stretch. The DF'd former elder walked past me towards the door and said, "You've come a long way in a short time." During the hearing, there had been a visible look of contempt on his face whenver I questioned him, as if he could hardly believe this "kid" was pressing him for details about his life when just a short time ago he was teaching me how to be a good little dub. Talk about irony.
Final memory: Judicial hearing, wife of elder in neighboring congo was accused of apostasy. CO send special committee to handle, including me and four other elders from various congos (yes, five of us - it was a hot potato). She tesified the elders in her congo misinterpreted her comments because they were "uneducated and not smart enough to understand" what she was saying. The chairman chuckled and said something like "well, we're educated by Jehovah, not by the world's institutions of higher education." Then he turned to one of the elders on the JC and said, "For instance, where'd you go to college?" The brother paused for a very long time before naming a large university in the midwest. The chairman looked stunned for a moment, then nodded at me, seated on the other side of him, and asked me the same question. I told him the name of my university. People in the audience, and there were about a dozen who were there as "witnesses" to testify, started to laugh a little. The chairman's face was bright red by now and he said, "Well, I think we all get the point."