@Data10 , no one has perhaps made an explicit linkage between numbers of CS courses and outcomes, but that linkage, even if unprovable, is surely a logical one. Why else do faculties design curricula except with a view to results? You are not going to tell me, are you, that the question of optimal linkage of courses to results never entered your mind or the mind of any reader of the data? It is surely the question left hanging in the air in respect of your summary in #414 above showing that “the general theme seems to be that Stanford requires more courses and a greater degree of minimum rigor in the fields more directly related to the CS Major”, etc. Why is that a point worth making - unless you intend a conclusion to be drawn from it?
Note to edit: With the addition of that last sentence to your prior post I believe we have found common ground.