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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is a rising 10th grader and I am starting to freak out about affording college. I expect we will have $100k saved by 2024 and can cover another $50k with cashflow. While that is not enough for the expensive top ten schools like Cornell, I am hoping it will cover most of the cost at other good schools that are more within reach of average UMC families. So my question: how much are you  spending right now on tuition and board for your 4.0 GPA engineering undergrad kid?[/quote]

Purdue is a top 10 engineering program and is about $42,000 out of state. Several of the University of California campuses are great for engineering and are around $45000 per year.

Other schools are just a little reach.  Illinois is a top 10 engineering school and is around $53,000 out of state. Michigan is around $54000 out of state. University of Washington is around $53,000.

But you are thinking about this wrong.  Prestige is less important in engineering than in other career paths.  Employers are more interested in what you can do than where you went.  I went to Missouri Science and Technology, which is a respectable engineering program, but not prestige, and my peers and I are doing just fine. It's not like law. No one gives a crap where you went to school after your first job, and it's not that important even for a first job.

Go to the program that you can afford, that is appealing to her.  Engineering school is hard.  Picking a school that you will enjoy helps a little. [/quote]
+1. (PP whose kid picked the mid-size private. Enjoying a little is one of the hopes.  Class size is another.  He will cross the recruiting bridge when he comes to it.  Right now, he's got to focus on his first semester and getting good, or at least non-bad, grades.)[/quote]

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