You raise a point about the Ivy League elitist thing. I often had to interview these fools and the moment you trap them in a lie or dumbass contradiction, they use the same argument to respond: I graduated from an Ivy League school, where did you graduate from? I tell them I graduated from Thomas More College in Merrimack NH and scored the lowest GPA among my graduating class. Sometimes I like to stump them with my humility approach.
Funniest thing I ever saw in my life was the reverse of that when a school superintendent was confronted by my dad and my best friend’s dad over some issue at my high school. The Superintendent knew both of our fathers worked on ranches so assumed both our fathers were uneducated.
The Superintendent got hot and to prove he was smarter he told both that he graduated from ASU and my girlfriend’s dad dropped it on him that he was a Princeton graduate. Yep my friend’s father graduated Princeton, became a fighter pilot in WWII, returned to own a car dealership in Tucson and had a massive heart attack and was told to take it easy so was working on a Quarter horse ranch. My friend’s dad was a humble man so few even knew his background.
My dad finished the conversation by telling the Superintendent that he only had an 8th grade education and was still smarter than he was. Funny stuff, the best part was later the state school superintendent came down on our school hard on the side of our parents. We had a male P.E. teacher which was unheard of in those days and he was being too friendly but the school administration didn’t want to do anything about it.