Not coincidentally, Stanford grads go to work at Google and Apple, University of Washington grads go to work at Microsoft: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...google_washington_to_microsoft_sjsu.html

Not surprising, because people tend to hire who they know, and students tend to target careers in the industries that they see succeeding around them.

Anyway, Harvard has a brand name that is associated with many things, but technology is not among them. A student in the Boston area who aspires to software engineering knows their time is far better served in MIT than Harvard.