I did my undergrad at Brown and was also accepted at Cornell at the time (as well as UCLA and NYU). The aid package was better at Brown. I was able to finish with just 10K in loans.
For grad school I'm back in NYC. I may or may not be at an Ivy League, but it is one of the top schools in the U.S., especially for my particular field of study.
In the end, being an alumni from an Ivy makes no difference in the real world.
