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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And its funny to see all of the teeth gnashing about hawing about tuition and expenses and this and that.

Son: public school kid (FCPS), graduated magna cum laude from George Mason, graduated cum laude from Georgetown, and is now getting his PhD at Hopkins.  Not bad for a 23 year old.

How much did we pay?  Well nothing for high school.  About $110k for four years of college (including a stint at Oxford), $40k for Georgetown (he got a partial grant), and Hopkins is free.

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Oh well, the PHD is free.  That shouldn't be in this conversation. My whole education in my home country was free. I also got a PhD from Ivies.  It is also becoming increasingly popular to study abroad.

But is a private school all about college placement? [/quote]

For many of these people it is based on the many, many posts on here that say that.

But DC is a place with industries that place a high value on credentials. And that’s what the Ivies are for these people, a credential.

In the rest of the US, credentials don’t have anywhere as a great a value. I worked for one of the largest 
, most successful US companies and where one went to college made little difference. [/quote]

It doesn’t even matter in DC beyond your first job or two. I am in my early 50s and yeah I do think my credentials may open doors but it is just as likely that people are turned off by them. And of course most of my colleagues did not go to Ivies! And I still have to prove I know what I am doing to get hired. [/quote]

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