@lostaccount, you’re basing the quality of the undergraduate education on research rankings. There is some correlation there, but the simple fact is that Brown CS grads do very well. Please show me something that shows that UPenn CS grads or RPI CS grads do better than Brown CS grads. Rankings based on faculty research output don’t count.
I agree that the OP did a poor job of coming up with a list of schools to apply to, applying to a bunch of schools where he isn’t a good fit or isn’t interested in