My neighbor, a doctor is still in mourning her kid choose unc over notre dame. You would think her kid died. Older bro went to unc.
She was county fencing champ and other stuff. Hardly anyone goed to unc from our top public high school. Most of our kids go to private colleges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy
Public Ivy Universities:
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
University of California (nine campuses as of 1985)[7]
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
***University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill***
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont (Burlington)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)