If you're talking about top graduates from top schools, or recent graduates working for some hip startup in the valley, then you're probably right, they're aren

If you're talking about top graduates from top schools, or recent graduates working for some hip startup in the valley, then you're probably right, they're aren't many who didn't do extra outside of class. But the majority of programmers are those mediocre students who didn't do anything extra, and are now slaving away writing some internal purchase order management system for XYZ corp (in Java)--someone has to do that stuff.