It’s amazing how many people on this site will spend hours arguing “facts” that have little or nothing to do with the OP’s post and subsequent clarifications. The topics on this site that seem to live eternally are those that have no right answer, but thousands of best opinions. Which college library has supported the best nobel prize winners of all time who contributed the most to humanity? The thread would live on for eternity with “proof” provided by graduate school admissions officers, the US librarians guild, and the library of Congress borrowing record. It’s crazy.
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. It’s a reasonable question based on the assumption that the Ivy League is a place of serious learning (despite being an athletic conference). Answering that question is entirely based on personal experience, leaving the few thousand people here enough leeway to opine on their personal preferences and decision history. There is no right answer when asking the question because there are too many assumptions required.
The real answer to the OP is do some research. Posting a generic question isn’t research. There are dozens of schools that provide students with a rigorous academic experience that could be generalized as “Ivy League-esque”. What size school do you want, where do you want to be geographically, what type of local environment, what can you afford and what major will all impact the results.
Which of your 8 children is most like me, and would they be the same if they grew up with families?