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[quote=Anonymous]Gross.

Something I often think when I see posts like this on DCUM is how ridiculous it is that so many people flip out about where their kid goes to college and how to pay for college, while demonstrating values that indicate they don't value education or intelligence AT ALL.

My DH has an Ivy League degree and makes less than 125k, in his 40s, because he has spent his entire career using his degree in the public sector to make the world a little better. His work is tangibly important and makes it possible for society to function (he works in public infrastructure). I've never thought to want him to get a higher paying job, which would almost certainly be less directly valuable and also likely less rewarding for him, because I'm not a Grade A b**ch.

If our DC is academically inclined enough to go to an competitive university, we will figure out how to make it happen financially and we will encourage her to use that education to make a difference in the world. Because that's the whole point. If she just wants to make a lot of money, why bother investing in a top notch education? Lots of people get wealthy doing stuff like selling cars or developing real estate or something. And who cares where someone with a job like that went to school? What could they possibly learn at Harvard or Stanford or some elite SLAC that would help them?

So OP: who cares? If all you care about is status and money, skip the expensive education and just focus on $$$.[/quote]

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