Help Needed With Early Applications

So far, it’s down to a list of less than ten. If you could tell me more about any of these schools, it would be greatly appreciated. I want to know more about the general atmosphere on campus (basically things that I wouldn’t really be able to find easily on each college’s website) as well as their engineering programs specifically. (You don’t have to tell me about all of these schools; even one would be very helpful.) Please don’t tell me anything about acceptance rates/likelihood of attending because that is not a concern for me with early- I am well aware of how selective these schools are.
Here’s the list:
Brown
Columbia
MIT
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Northwestern

MIT/Stanford/Princeton/Yale are the ones you want to aim for if you’re going for engineering (mainly MIT and Stanford). Stanford REA I heard is pretty killer. MIT EA is a bit nicer but not by much. As for campus life, I’m sorry I don’t know much.

are there any actual details you could give me about why their engineering programs are superior?