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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a previous poster noted, UVA routinely goes on recruiting tours with Harvard and Yale.  How many other state schools are invited to do that?[/quote]

[b]That is good, but others may be and we don't really know about i[/b]t.  [/quote]

Here you go. http://www.hpuwy.com/.  UVA routinely tours with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.  It is known as a Public Ivy.[/quote]

[b]Public Ivy.....lol, you are such a loser.[/quote][/b]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy
http://brandcollegeconsulting.com/what-are-the-public-ivies/
https://blog.prepscholar.com/public-ivy-league-schools[b]
https://blog.prepscholar.com/public-ivy-league-schools (UVA no. 1)
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[b]You realize that "public ivy" is just a made up term, right?  And you realize that the Ivy League is just an athletic league, right?  And you realize that you sound insanely insecure about UVA, right? [/quote][/b]

Nope. Public Ivy is a real term used by college counselors.  It can be a way to get a great education at a fraction of what other families are paying.  http://brandcollegeconsulting.com/what-are-the-public-ivies/[/quote]

[b]Yes people have already said in state Uva is cheap. This is why it is so popular[/b].[/quote]

[b]Cheap and good also. Like, say, Cal or Michigan.  Texas I guess, also.  Pretty steep drop off after that.[/quote][/b]

More like xlnt and inexpensive.  The delta between UVA and an ivy can now be as much as $55,000 a year in after tax dollars (so you have to make $90K to pay for one year).  For us the delta was $45K in after-tax dollars.  We would have to make 85K a year to pay that.  85K a year x 5 years (75% of our nation's graduates are now taking 5-6 years to graduate ) = $410K or more.  x two or three kids = Savings of $1.2 million.  That delta went into the bank to pay for Ivy grad school.[/quote]

Fine, but money isn't an issue for every family.[/quote]

Forgot to mention that $1.2 was invested before Trump came to office so now worth over $2M, but YRMV.  Children have no college or grad school debt, can start saving, understand the value of money, can put a down payment on a house and they are forever grateful.  Just because privates are charging $65K to $85K a year doesn't make it an intelligent expenditure.  They do it because they can get away with it because American parents are suckers in the college-admissions race.  Didn't it ever occur to you odd that when an Ivy bumps its price tag to 75K that all the other private LACs and SLACs do too?  They do it simply because they can - because American parents are buying into this insanity and bankrupting their families or saddling their children with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt - but a third-rate LAC is not Harvard, just like a Ford is not a Mercedes - but the LAC knows there are desperate parents out there that will pay full-freight for Johnny to go to some LAC no one has ever heard of.  So all privates follow suit and jack up their fees and parents like you pay justifying it because it's "a good fit".  There are 4000 institutions of higher education in the United States.  You do not have to saddle your kids with debt to get a college education of quality.[/quote]

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