If all costs were equal, would you rather your child attend a top public or top private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top private over top public any day of the week! You’re delusional if you think anyone is going to be more impressed with Berkeley than Harvard.

Wall Street and Silicon Valley are minuscule employment opportunities in the vast world of occupations.

Where do you think the top paying it jobs come from? It’s not government or even contracting.

[Anonymous]

Top private to me means Ivy League. If you can’t do Ivy League, UVA and other top public’s are the way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top private to me means Ivy League. If you can’t do Ivy League, UVA and other top public’s are the way to go.

Ivy League aren't even all the top privates so this is kind of silly. No way you'd choose UVA over Duke if price was the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top private to me means Ivy League. If you can’t do Ivy League, UVA and other top public’s are the way to go.

Whats your reasoning? Because on the surface your comment makes zero sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it depend on the kid? If your kid wants a big school and loves STEM, wouldn't Berkeley be an obvious choice over those others? Likewise if your kid wanted to study business and likes being on the east coast, UVA makes so much more sense than Vandy, rice, emory, or wash u.

UVA business is better than Vandy? I don't think so...

Vandy is great, but they don’t have an undergraduate business program. Poets and Quants just rated UVA McIntire number 2 for undergraduate business, only behind Wharton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99.9% of kids can’t get into HPYSM, so it doesn’t really matter where top publics rate relative to them. When you compare privates rated 10-25 to top publics, they offer no better job or graduate school placement, on average, and cost a lot more. For many smart kids, this is the practical tradeoff. If you are in-state to one if these better publics, it’s a no brainer.

By saying costs don’t matter, this just becomes another ranking thread, which is useless because everyone already knows - more or less - where schools stand. No one cares about the difference between 10-25 or 26-40. When you add cost to the equation, you’re ascertaining value. That’s what most care about.

Thank you for some sanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, Michigan is pretty much like half out of state kids, often from the NY area, who pay full price...in that sense, it is kind of like a private.

No, 30,000 undergraduates do not make a private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99.9% of kids can’t get into HPYSM, so it doesn’t really matter where top publics rate relative to them. When you compare privates rated 10-25 to top publics, they offer no better job or graduate school placement, on average, and cost a lot more. For many smart kids, this is the practical tradeoff. If you are in-state to one if these better publics, it’s a no brainer.

By saying costs don’t matter, this just becomes another ranking thread, which is useless because everyone already knows - more or less - where schools stand. No one cares about the difference between 10-25 or 26-40. When you add cost to the equation, you’re ascertaining value. That’s what most care about.

This is stupid. Not even hypsm offers any superior job/graduate school placement in this day and age. There is no guarantee of anything. It's not a golden key to success. hypsm prestige defense squad folks are truly delusional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99.9% of kids can’t get into HPYSM, so it doesn’t really matter where top publics rate relative to them. When you compare privates rated 10-25 to top publics, they offer no better job or graduate school placement, on average, and cost a lot more. For many smart kids, this is the practical tradeoff. If you are in-state to one if these better publics, it’s a no brainer.

By saying costs don’t matter, this just becomes another ranking thread, which is useless because everyone already knows - more or less - where schools stand. No one cares about the difference between 10-25 or 26-40. When you add cost to the equation, you’re ascertaining value. That’s what most care about.

comprehension problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:99.9% of kids can’t get into HPYSM, so it doesn’t really matter where top publics rate relative to them. When you compare privates rated 10-25 to top publics, they offer no better job or graduate school placement, on average, and cost a lot more. For many smart kids, this is the practical tradeoff. If you are in-state to one if these better publics, it’s a no brainer.

By saying costs don’t matter, this just becomes another ranking thread, which is useless because everyone already knows - more or less - where schools stand. No one cares about the difference between 10-25 or 26-40. When you add cost to the equation, you’re ascertaining value. That’s what most care about.

This is stupid. Not even hypsm offers any superior job/graduate school placement in this day and age. There is no guarantee of anything. It's not a golden key to success. hypsm prestige defense squad folks are truly delusional.

+1. They all sound as if there is some massive drop-off beyond hypsm while in fact there really isn't any.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have the UVA boosters never heard of financial aid? Is this a foreign concept to them?

Many in the DMV don’t qualify for aid, yet $75k is still a ton of money to them. Why part with $75k/year if you can get the same for $30k? Common sense.

Yup!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, Michigan is pretty much like half out of state kids, often from the NY area, who pay full price...in that sense, it is kind of like a private.

No, 30,000 undergraduates do not make a private.

I guess NYU isn't a private university in your world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, Michigan is pretty much like half out of state kids, often from the NY area, who pay full price...in that sense, it is kind of like a private.

No, 30,000 undergraduates do not make a private.

I guess NYU isn't a private university in your world.

NYU isn't a top private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99.9% of kids can’t get into HPYSM, so it doesn’t really matter where top publics rate relative to them. When you compare privates rated 10-25 to top publics, they offer no better job or graduate school placement, on average, and cost a lot more. For many smart kids, this is the practical tradeoff. If you are in-state to one if these better publics, it’s a no brainer.

By saying costs don’t matter, this just becomes another ranking thread, which is useless because everyone already knows - more or less - where schools stand. No one cares about the difference between 10-25 or 26-40. When you add cost to the equation, you’re ascertaining value. That’s what most care about.

This is stupid. Not even hypsm offers any superior job/graduate school placement in this day and age. There is no guarantee of anything. It's not a golden key to success. hypsm prestige defense squad folks are truly delusional.

Not sure why the hate. I think PP largely agrees with you that while HPYSM are better schools than some Top Publics, the opportunities out of Top Publics are very good, especially for majors like CS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, Michigan is pretty much like half out of state kids, often from the NY area, who pay full price...in that sense, it is kind of like a private.

No, 30,000 undergraduates do not make a private.

I guess NYU isn't a private university in your world.

NYU isn't a top private.

I can't imagine the amount of pressure on your kids