I find it interesting how good the top schools are at making sure they get credit for things. I often read "Harvard scientist..., MIT grads, Stanford..." in headlines. You rarely read "University of Minnesota" (just a made up example) so the casual reader may think that Harvard, MIT and Stanford are the only schools that do interesting things.
And it really works. At a startup I worked at we had a guy from MIT and whenever the VCs talked to to the low ranks they inevitable ended up talking to him. And no, he was not the best engineer. Not even close.
This. Regardless of the school name you prefix it with "graduates designed" conjures up mental imagery of bolted assemblies with fasteners you can't actually get a wrench on and massive stamped parts with a size tolerance of whatever the default in their cad software was"
And it really works. At a startup I worked at we had a guy from MIT and whenever the VCs talked to to the low ranks they inevitable ended up talking to him. And no, he was not the best engineer. Not even close.