For what its worth, they recently celebrated the top students at my college. Gave them a party and recognized their accomplishments. The attendees were not foreign students, they were Americans from a variety of states. You hear a lot about how the foreign students are all the best and the Americans are crap, but it just isn’t so from what I saw at that event. Maybe the good ones are all getting their golden tickets to Harvard and Yale because for sure we aren’t seeing them here.
The Ivy league has become a shrewd way for the “elites” to become a ruling class and perpetuate ethnic discrimination against most but competent and qualified Americans.