Having mentored interns in the past the idea that certain academic institutions signal intelligence over others is flawed at best. This is anecdotal but one sum

Having mentored interns in the past the idea that certain academic institutions signal intelligence over others is flawed at best. This is anecdotal but one summer we got two - one from Harvard and the other from a US college I'd never heard of. One we went on to offer a job, the other struggled with basic coding and had to be taught multiple times how to open a PR.