Yes. It is possible to get through and ivy League school without being infected with Alinsky-ite principles but, as you say, you must come with a solid conservative orientation. Even so, I think you learn more at a place like Hillsdale College or, if you are Catholic, Thomas Aquinas or University of Dallas. They honor Western Culture at schools like that and don’t apologize for it like they do at Harvard and Princeton.
Yep, my brother sent his eldest daughter to Hillsdale. Did wonders for her.
I have a Harvard degree from back in the 50s. Even then, they tried to brainwash people, but they had some really good professors if you knew which courses to choose. I had been fortunate in my education before going there, so there was no danger I would be brainwashed.
I must say, however, that things have changed since then. They had some really good people in English and History and teaching the core humanities courses. Now there are hardly any left who are worth studying with.
There were always liberals at Harvard, but since the 70s they have taken over academia entirely and monopolized it. It’s very hard now to find anything else. And back then, Yale and Princeton were fairly conservative, in an elitist way. No longer.