My kids will be going to a public school. No way is a BS education worth $250k+. @ $380k+, I rather they go to CSU/UC for $100k and save the other $280k to down for a house or start a biz. After your first job, no one really ask where you went to school anyways. I rather pick a person who went to SDSU and have a few apps written for various platforms or written/maintain their own website than an Ivy Leaguer who have done nothing but school.
[quote=AN]My kids will be going to a public school. No way is a BS education worth $250k+. @ $380k+, I rather they go to CSU/UC for $100k and save the other $280k to down for a house or start a biz. After your first job, no one really ask where you went to school anyways. I rather pick a person who went to SDSU and have a few apps written for various platforms or written/maintain their own website than an Ivy Leaguer who have done nothing but school.[/quote]
The problem is whether they can get into a UC school.
Maybe I’m biased, but if you can at all afford it, you should pay for the most prestigeous school your kids get accepted to. It’s a good investment in terms of social mobility. Maybe not for a job or financial success but for marriage or acceptance by the potential in-laws.
Maybe it’s best if one’s kids don’t marry the kind of small-minded idiot that judges them based on what school they finished, or who is spineless enough to listen to their small-minded in-laws instead of telling them to go fuck themselves with a pointy object.
If you want to buy your kids a pedigree, get them a purebred dog.
The cost of my ivy league degree was ridiculous but not insanely ridiculous. And to be frank, for engineering… didn’t matter one freaking deal versus any other reputable engineering school, except maybe that I was able to finish in 4 years, versus at the time possibly taking me 6 years at a UC school when they were having budget shortfalls and difficulty for students to get the classes they needed.
For something else, perhaps with a pedigree wall street/ management consulting firm, it might make a bigger difference, simply because those companies don’t recruit from all schools. But then again, sibling went to the best UC school and did just fine with that too. For medical/dental/law, not sure…Some say it matters, some say it doesn’t.
Spd, be pragmatic. Kids discover the world, meet and fall in love on campus. All else being equal, do you want your kid to fall in love at SDSU or Harvard?
What’s so great about Harvard? I wouldn’t want my kid going to school with all those spoiled, wealthy, elitist little pricks. (oh wait, that statement could apply to most colleges)
I’m curious what college did you graduate from FlyerInHi?
[quote=flu][quote=AN]My kids will be going to a public school. No way is a BS education worth $250k+. @ $380k+, I rather they go to CSU/UC for $100k and save the other $280k to down for a house or start a biz. After your first job, no one really ask where you went to school anyways. I rather pick a person who went to SDSU and have a few apps written for various platforms or written/maintain their own website than an Ivy Leaguer who have done nothing but school.[/quote]
The problem is whether they can get into a UC school.[/quote]If you’re in the top 5% of your school, you’re guaranteed to get into one UC. Mine was UCI.
