Questions: Education & Career

Assuming quality of education is held constant, which one do you find more impressive: An Ivy League Dropout, or an Elite T 25 Graduate (Private or Public), and why?

Elite Private T 25 Schools by Ranking:
4) Stanford University
4) University of Chicago
7) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
8) Duke University
10) California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
10) Johns Hopkins University
12) Northwestern University
15) Vanderbilt University (Vandy)
15) Washington University in St. Louis
18) Rice University
18) University of Notre Dame
21) Emory University
21) Georgetown University
23) University of Southern California (USC)
23) Carnegie Mellon University

Ivy League Schools by Ranking:
1) Princeton University
2) Harvard University
3) Yale University
4) Columbia University
9) University of Pennsylvania
12) Dartmouth College
14) Brown University
15) Cornell University

Elite Public T 25 Schools by Ranking:
20) University of California Berkeley (Cal)
23) University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

*Note: Most variation is in reputation, endowment, location, likelihood of graduating in 4 years, competition based on reputation, and employment after graduation (e. g. strength of alumni network)