[quote=Essbee]I think that if your kid has aspirations to be in fields such as medicine, law, or Wall Street, he should go to the best school possible. Resumes really matter in these fields.

I’m in medicine and I have never met anyone who has come thru the community college route. I’m sure it could be done, but I think it’s much better to go to “at minimum” a UC school. Preferably an Ivy. I wouldn’t even recommend a CSU school, much less a community college.

Now maybe this is because Ivy/UC kids have better MCATs than CSU kids, and that if someone from a CSU got a 36+ on the MCAT, they could get into med school just as easily… but I wouldn’t want to risk it.

I’m sure I’ll get haters for this message but I’m simply telling you how it is.[/quote]

That’s interesting. In my prior industry, software tech, it was the opposite… in my experience schooling didn’t matter much if at all (where you went, or even if you went). All that mattered was how talented, smart, experienced, and reliable you were (plus personality, to a varying degree depending on the company).

That was my experience, anyway (as both a programmer and a person who did a lot of hiring/resume reviews of other programmers). I am not denying at all that it is probably different in other fields, as Essbee suggests.

Rich

PS – Yes, as scaredy suggested, I think that if you get a long term fixed rate loan, inflation will take care of a lot of it. Of course, no loan is even better than that.