I went to a private non-ivy for my undergrad and went to an ivy for my graduate degree (physics). There was a head and shoulders difference in the intellect of the ivy kids vs, the non-ivy.
That was 30 years ago...not sure that is still true today.
What needs to happen is that these institutions need to be fumigated of all of the leftist retard administrators who have turned them into the Soviet Union
As someone who graduated from Cornell almost 30 years ago, I’d largely agree with you.
That said, this is Brown, which that far back already had a reputation for being plain nuts.