[quote=UCGal]All I know is that my 529 savings accounts will NOT be enough to pay for Ivy. But I’m hoping it will be enough to pay for UC. They can go to grad school on my dime if there’s money left over.

If my kids get accepted to Ivy and don’t get financial aid – then it’s an issue…

Truthfully, I doubt my kids will be accepted to Ivy schools – I’m hoping for acceptance to UC schools – which is much harder now than when I was accepted to UCB several decades ago. FWIW – my engineering degree from SDSU was good enough for me to support myself, sock away some money, and retire at age 52. I was not going to keep working just in case my kids wanted to go to Harvard instead of UCSD, UCLA, UCI, etc…[/quote]

Congrats on early retirement, but a lot of that has less to do with SDSU than an Ivy league degree. Having followed your posts for a long time here, I seriously believe if you went to an Ivy League school, you would have done just as well and my guess is, even much better with your work and savings ethics.

At the end of the day, you can go to SDSU and spend to no end and be on the streets, go to an Ivy and penny pinch and retire early too.

Early retirement is more about saving more than you spend and living a certain lifestyle…