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[quote=Anonymous]I went to Berkeley. I could have gotten into an Ivy but my parents couldn't afford to send me to one.

I just looked up how much I paid at Berkeley vs how much an Ivy would have cost in 1988:

Public               '87-'88  '88-'89 
UC Berkeley:     $1,374.  $1434 
Min wage in 1988 was $4.24. I was able to work part time senior year and the summer before college to pay my tuition working around 337 hours. My parents then paid for room and board.  By the time my younger sibling attended UCLA in 93-94 tuition/fees had risen to $3454. I remember thinking how ridiculous it was tuition had doubled and almost tripled.

Tuition Rates Around the Ivy League College
                      '87-'88  '88-'89  
Harvard        $17,100  $18,210  
Dartmouth    $17,085  $18,199  
Yale              $17,020  $18,060  
Princeton      $16,918  $17,967  
Brown          $16,950  $17,962  
Penn            $16,841  $17,800  
Cornell         $16,320  $17,460

Sometimes I think whether it would have been worth it to have $45k worth of loans to have gone to an Ivy. I have no idea. 
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