It’s in my opinion that college degrees at expensive and prestigious colleges has more or less evolved (devolved?) into something like a luxury car. For many people, going to an expensive, hard to obtain college is a mere exercise of futility of “keeping up with the Joneses”…in which the air of exclusivity trumps any sort of logic.

This is why I can’t understand the point of sending a kid to a prestigious college for a bullshit degree that can’t ever recoup the cost of tuition and room and board. Maybe for the top 0.001% where money grows on trees it doesn’t matter. I went to one of those Ivy League schools that was difficult to get in and expensive and frankly I don’t think I did that much better than anyone else that attended a good engineering school elsewhere..One could argue that part of the motivation and work ethics that it takes to get into these difficult schools is often a reflection of the person’s future work ethics..But again, I’ve seen a lot of lazy slobs from all sorts of expensive private schools….And I admit one of the stupid reasons why I went was for the name, because back then I didn’t know any better. It was good at impressing some chicks, except the ones that got into a better Ivy League school than you…lol

Maybe that’s the solution. Colleges should offer tuition like luxury cars to get around the appearance of an expensive cost… Leases…..