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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.

It is the high price that makes it worthwhile.

As you say, knowledge is free. Between the internet and the library you can access pretty much everything for zero cost. That is not what college is about.

It is a) a signal to employers that you had a good enough combination of intelligence, money and background to be admitted, and b) it is about the contacts you make there.

The contacts you make in place that charges $100 k a year are going to be far wealthier, and therefore far likelier to succeed, because they have every advantage already, than the contacts you will make in a place that charges $10k a year.

It is simply a way for the elites to perpetuate themselves. Nothing to do with education.

And let's not pretend we don't love it for that very reason. I don't know how my kids would fare if they were born into a working class family in West Virginia or Detroit. And, thanks to the US plutocratic system, I am never going to have to find out.[/quote]

This is definitely an over-the-top post...however, folks do need to understand that the benefits of a top school really have little to do with the actual schooling.  The differential equation class you take at Harvard won't be much different from the one at Penn State.  You are going to Harvard for the network and you need to be comfortable in your own skin to pursue that network.

Look, 5% of the wealthy kids at Harvard will keep to themselves, join the most elite Final Club and won't give the time of day to anyone else.  But 95% of kids from very wealthy families ($50MM+ net worth) actually will give you the time of day...and maybe they have more money than ideas and honestly they are seeking out the smart and hungry kids with ideas.[/quote]

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