It wasn’t an ad hominem attack, since it was against your opinion, not your person, and it wasn’t at all subtle. I was quite blatantly mocking the “Ivy Worship” that pops up, ever so often, on CC.
An ad hominem attack is arguing that, because you are X, your opinion is invalid.
If I had written “what can we expect from an Ivy graduate/parent?” or something similar, THAT would have been an ad hominem argument. However, I wrote nothing about your background, your intelligence, your gender, or anything at all personal.
It was the “Appeal to Ridicule” fallacy, but it was obviously done tongue-in-cheek, rather than as an argument supporting my claim that “people at ivies are NOT any more upstanding and virtuous than people who don’t attend Ivies, nor at all superior morally, ethically, or in their contribution to the good of society”. As for marriage, my argument was that people from Ivies do not make any better spouses than any other college graduate in the USA.
BTW, what survey are you talking about?