Isn't this sort of true though ?

Not just the prestige, but the really strong networks you build. It helps you be 'I know a guy who knows a guy' distance from VCs, experts and hiring managers at top labs.

A lot of my close friends went here, and they're able to catch up over phone with people who leave my linkedin requests on 'pending', and this is with folks who've achieved exactly the same as me at the same age.

It is a force multiplier beyond comprehension.

If your purpose is creating a strong network, becoming a CEO and leveraging relationships later in life you don't go to those schools for computer science. What a waste of an opportunity. Go into business and meet important people. Or go into the arts so you have time to join social clubs.

Going to those places to get a VC to email you more easily is better achieved by getting into an yc or some other incubator.

Also, given what I've seen in this business, you'll have much better luck if you're a rich kid from NOVA who went to TJ.