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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Per year?[/quote]

OP here-- yes!! Per year!! I'm sure that they offer a lot more in terms of academics, but it wasn't a great selling point for the middle class. [/quote]

OP, I doubt you are real middle class.  You don't make under $80-100K.  They offer the same academics.  You are paying for name and prestige.  Its all about luck with the professors your child gets.  [/quote]

OP here-- no, I'm considered UMC by most standards, but I was raised in poverty and it still shapes a lot of my thinking about value. The problem with name and prestige is that I've never heard of a lot of these colleges until I started googling them for my son. I used to make hiring decisions at my previous job (at a University, ironically)--we didn't really pay much attention to "place of education" unless someone had an advance degree or they graduated from a big shot school like Stanford. [/quote]

This is OP-- I'm not knocking the quality of these schools btw, but it's sticker shock. Even the public universities are crazy expensive for out of state students-- although that varies a lot. [/quote]

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