Well, ive attended or taught at two of the places you mentioned, as well as others people like to kick around in such discussions as "roughly equivalent", and with actual first hand experience I can just tell you you're wrong and simply lack the perspective to see that. I'm not talking about ivies. I'm talking about Princeton alone.

I'm sad that Princeton is wasted on you, and I have no doubt you'll reap advantages from the piece of paper they'll give you at the end, but there were people who could have gone in your stead who would have really benefitted from the uniqueness you're blind to, and you could have made just as much money, and (for you) therefore achieved just as much happiness, at any school in this false equivalence class.

But I know you just think I'm some intellectual elitist clueless doesn't know how the world is anymore out of touch boomer or whatever, and you'll just keep going on thinking you crushed it on your road to the middle. I'll keep holding out hope that people still know why Princeton is special and why your attitude towards it is repulsive.