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[quote=Anonymous][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. 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. 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]

PP, you're wrong. OP's parents are NOT insane, manipulative, selfish, or hypocritical. They're being perfectly reasonable -- who wouldn't want their kid to graduate from Columbia?!!![/quote]

I can't tell if this is sarcasm. It's sarcasm, right? OP, be wary of taking advice from an anonymous board. There's a thread in the money section where people admit to making up stories around here.

In the the first post, OP describes how their childhood was miserable, there was tons of pressure and yelling, telling OP they are worthless, and then threatening to disown OP if they don't take $80k in loans. OP now has suicidal ideation.

This has to be sarcasm... right?

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