Indeed.
I think it sometimes surprises people that, say, MIT seems to have nearly, if indeed not actually just the same, sort of HASS standards for its successful applicants as Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and so on.
But MIT is very much in the same sort of liberal arts tradition, and its required HASS classes are taught at a very high level. Indeed, that is part of why it has some excellent HASS graduate departments even when few if any undergrads are majoring in those departments.
Of course I wouldn’t suggest this means the OP should not bother with MIT, because you never know. But I would suggest when applying, the OP could maybe find some ways to create a somewhat different impression than the one I got.