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Um, did we ever really make that distinction? The Ivies were always to an important extent about prestige -- about what your bio said and the connections you made 1/
In fact, in the early years of both Harvard and Yale class ranking was based, not on grades, but on your family's social standing 2/ history.com/news/harvard-y…
The meritocratic era, such as it was, was fairly short-lived -- driven, I think, in large part by the sudden realization that scholarship at public universities like CCNY was getting so much better that the Ivies' prestige was in danger 3/
