<p>MIT, Cal Tech, Harvey Mudd, UMich, Cal, etc...</p>
<p>All the heavy hitters can put you into any graduate school (assuming you have the right stuff). There are two main things to consider I believe - research opportunity and GPA. If someone has a choice of MIT & Texas A&M and chooses Texas they will have a correspondingly high GPA and likely will be a top choice for any research opportunity available. However, at MIT that person will just be one of the herd, a lower GPA and probably some good research experience. It's hard to compare, as you can see. Feeder schools usually only feed the best students to graduate school (but obviously a graduate program understands a low GPA from MIT is not neccessarily proof of underperformance).</p>