Compmom, what is your rationale that the article is Ivy bashing?
No one in our family caught the Ivy fever. We weren’t anti-Ivy, but rather focused on broader dimensions of things. I turned down offers from Princeton for grad school and Stanford for law school, and never looked back. My wife turned down a grad school offer from Harvard. And thus we “met” one another in the classroom at a large midwestern university. The kids took a similar approach.