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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, my DH and I are doing fine without ivy degrees. I'm not even in my PhD field anymore. I just use the degree to check a box saying I have one. Yes, I'm sure having an ivy degree will open doors at the beginning, and this may give you a leg up for the rest of your life. [b]But is it worth you sanity? I don't think so. You don't sound like a person who needs wealth and prestige to be happy. You just need to be left alone to find your own way on your own terms.

I think whichever you decide - to plow through and take the debt and get the degree or to switch to a cheaper school and get a degree somewhere else - will be fine in the long run. [/b]One is not inherently better or worse than the other. The most important thing is to gain independence from your parents and then go low/no contact.

If you haven't already, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/insaneparents/ and hopefully really internalize that it's not you - the problem is THEM. They are manipulative, selfish, and hypocritical, and you need to be free of them.[/quote]

OP here, thanks for the words of support. But most of the other commenters on this thread seem to say that a Columbia degree is definitely worth my sanity. Maybe these people are super dependent on wealth and prestige. [/quote]

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