Neither the article nor jkpab's comment is about ivies. In fact, the only "elite" college specifically mentioned in the article is NYU. NYtimes used a misleadin

Neither the article nor jkpab's comment is about ivies. In fact, the only "elite" college specifically mentioned in the article is NYU. NYtimes used a misleading headline, they probably should have stuck with the other headline "Elite Colleges are as Foreign as Mars".