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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if you can afford Harvard and the kid gets in but the kid wants to major in elementary education?

I would have to say no. The ROI just isn’t there.[/quote]

Well if my kid wanted to major in Elementary Education, the list of colleges they applied to would be very different than if they want to major in business or engineering or chemistry.  So Harvard likely wouldn't even be in their list of choices, because yes, it's more important to do undergrad in the state you ultimately want to work and to pick a program that has great student teaching program---that is what matters most, not an elite school. [/quote]

+1 You need to fit the list to the kid and their goals. I found it really helpful that a close friend had gone through this with her three, very high achieving kids, a few years before me. Their father is a doctor and an Ivy grad. Kid 1 wanted to go into investment banking. ED to the Ivy where he was a legacy and has since graduated and is in fact in IB. Kid 2, loves tech, mostly applied to big flagships strong in CS/Engineering and goes to U of Washington. Kid 3, wants to go to med school. Is going to a solid state university near home (and working in dad's medical office) and saving money for med school. All three had very different lists.[/quote]

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