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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]State flagships[/quote]

This is probably right.

You can make an argument for any of the other IVY+ but unless there is something compelling about a full pay private school that resonates with your kid.  Saving $50k/year and putting it in an S&P fund will likely beat inflation by 7% over the next 40 years so they will have something like $3 million in inflation adjusted dollars by the time they are 62.  Whatever difference there is between a UVA degree and a Cornell degree, that $3 million come close to covering the gap and relieves your child from having to worry about being destitute in retirement.  There are very few schools where an equally smart kid will do better financially than a state school.  HYPSM is probably most of them.[/quote]

Where they will do better by enough to cover that $3 million[/quote]

PP.  If my kid really wanted to go to Duke or Brown, I would still pay for it over UVA but I wouldn't want him to go there just because USNWR says Duke or Brown are better, not if he could also work his entire life knowing that there is $3 million waiting for him when he retires.
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