College costs at $1m/kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and others could be $120,000/ year by the time my 9th grader would be finished (Wesleyan is more than Harvard). Harvard Law and Med is already $100,000 plus a year. So total for one kid could be $1 million.

Harvard is definitely not the most expensive school. I think Wesleyan is 80 or 85 all in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and others could be $120,000/ year by the time my 9th grader would be finished (Wesleyan is more than Harvard). Harvard Law and Med is already $100,000 plus a year. So total for one kid could be $1 million.

You're planning for your child to be IN COLLEGE (not a graduate program) for 8-10 years? The question was "college cost."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A thread on a different topic contained this comment as a throwaway, so I thought I would start a different thread. Is this reality? I thought the ost expensive colleges were around $80k/year. Are we really up at $200k for full pay students? And if so, could someone break that cost down or point me to online info?

Perhaps I misunderstood. TIA.

Maybe someone was projecting what four years of private college plus private medical school will cost for a baby born this year.

That baby will probably enter college in 2040 and get a medical degree in 2048.

If eight years of private school plus ski trips would cost $640,000 today, it could easily cost twice that in the 2040s.