The difference between Ivy League Harvard and Penn compared to tech powerhouse MIT is that, at MIT, the few liberal arts majors there are treated as special ed.
Was definitely true a generation or more back.
It may still be true academically, for all I know, but a lot of social engineering has expanded the liberal ed window there, and the classroom is different from the campus “streets.” MIT used to be hands-off on loud political mouthiness, but now seems to encourage it in the name of DEI.
Still not in the STEM classrooms, AFAIK.
MIT has been infected with wokeness as badly as any Ivy League university. Indeed, the president of MIT was one of the ones who embarrassed herself in Congressional testimony a day or two ago.