[quote=harvey]Y’all are ignoring a very important aspect of the cost/benefits.
If your kid gets into the Ivy League and doesn’t go, they’ll spend the rest of their life thinking “I could have gone to …”[/quote]If you’re that smart, you wouldn’t think that way. If you do think that way, you’d probably flunk out of Elite U anyways. My friend turn down CalTech for a UC. He took a few years after his BS teaching English in Japan. By his late 20s, he’s an Engineering manager. I don’t think he think twice about his decision about turning down CalTech.
