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[quote=Anonymous]William & Mary is a fine school, but I would have no problem paying more for Carleton which is an academic powerhouse, offers a world-class education and reputationally is valued by knowledgeable, discerning, sophisticated bodies of influence in the U.S. and around the world. Nitpickers who actually think that  Northwestern is a third-tier school reveal their own lack of these qualities.

In any case, a smarter, more commonsensical way to approach the issue is to stipulate that as a general rule, you'd be willing to pay above and beyond in-state tuition for any school with an undergraduate student body that is "more accomplished" than Rutgers' which can be crudely evaluated, statistically speaking, here: https://admissions.rutgers.edu/apply/how-we-make-decisions#tab=panel-3. Rutgers is not Berkeley. But NE public flagships get much, much less credit for the strength of their offerings and student bodies than they deserve, in no small part because, as one poster mentioned, the most established schools in the region are amongst the oldest and most prestigious private institutions in the country.

Below is a partial list of schools based upon academic quality alone for which I'd be willing to shell out beyond the price of Rutgers:
Amherst, Barnard, Bowdoin, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cal Tech, Carleton, Columbia, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Davidson, Deep Springs, Duke, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Grinnell, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Oberlin, Pomona, Princeton, Reed, Rice, Smith, St. John's, Stanford, Swarthmore, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UChicago, UNC-Chapel Hill, UPenn, UVA, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale[/quote]

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