Bit of a conspiracy, but a friend once pointed out that courses at elite colleges are much more in-depth than what you'd receive at other schools, even when you're talking about something as simple as Biology 101 or Calculus 101, where you wouldn't think there'd be a lot of discrepancy. When asking another friend what she thought about it, she pointed out that the material covered in another friend's graduate program at a SUNY school was the same covered in the 101 level at our elite college.
I don't pretend to know where the line is drawn, but it seems that it could be a thing and that certain companies might prefer students who have a more challenging background, like this?
