It likely will allow her to steer clear of more shallow employers
Consulting firms value degrees from the most prestigious schools. This may be in part due to shallowness or snobbery of the people working their who make hiring decisions. Another factor is that firms like McKinsey charge their clients a lot of money per consultant hour, even for consultants who just graduated and have no business experience. It may be easier for corporate clients to believe they are getting their money's worth when the 20-something consultants are from a "name" school. The shallowness of clients results in shallowness of consulting firm hiring practices.
I'd rather hire a 2400 SAT student from Rutgers than a 2100 SAT student from Princeton, but for some reason it is considered more gauche to ask about test scores than schools attended. The number of seats at the ten most prestigious schools is almost constant over time, whereas the U.S. population continues to grow, as does the population of foreign students that attend U.S. schools. Therefore the percentage of gifted students who are attending top 10 schools is declining, and employers should adapt to that.
