Of all the stupidity I have ever encountered in the private sector, Human Resources (those who scan resumes) takes the cake. Where I work, we just call them the Gestapo.
If it all possible, you should always get your resume to a company through a human contact rather than through HR.
I don't know if it's true that they scan for Stanford, MIT, and Yale. I once tried to submit a resume for a friend, and found out that they will not accept any kind of formatted resumes. Think about it for a second. Who do you know that prepares a resume in simple text: letters and spaces ONLY? Doesn't EVERYBODY try to compose a really elegant, formatted resume???? Apparently their scanners can't handle formatted resumes. Brainy geeks indeed!!!
Ugh,
Joanna Bujes