[ConservativeDude]

I do think there is a big difference, in the Ivies and elsewhere, between the hard sciences, and the humanities in terms of political correctness/grade inflation, etc.

I think an engineering degree from MIT would still today mean a whole lot.

I don’t think a “literature” degree from Harvard would, however.

[Alberta's Child]

My experience is that a lot of these Ivy League schools are highly overrated, and that their strong reputations (the legitimate aspects of it) are really based more on their graduate schools than their undergraduate programs.

I am engineer by training, and when I was in high school I was steered away from "top" engineering schools by a professional engineer who pointed out that I could get an undergraduate degree at a state school and a master's degree at MIT or Stanford for the same cost as an undergraduate degree at one of those "top" engineering schools.