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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Besides the price tag, what are some of the differences?[/quote]

A very broad question. At top privates you get huge endowments, national alumni networks, excellence in multiple disciplines and often a well worn paths to at minimum to UMC life.  (There are very to no public schools in this tier). I do not know if this is true for non- top ranked privates.  There are some quirky ones, poorly funded ones and of course the generally bad for profit schools.  To give a valid answer about the differences we would need to know what tier school.  Also, in general, private school focus more on the needs of their students or they go out of business so they are student friendly. Our family looked at 4 graduation rate (we did not care about the 6 year rate because time is $) and mid career salary which was significantly better for top privates.  We also looked at jobs at graduation (not 6 months out) and job placement. Overall, top privates did significantly better.
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