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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the US News Top 100 National Universities (private only). Not talking SLACs. I broke them into three groups but they stay in ranking order, all of group 2 is higher ranked than group 3.

If you could, almost all would pay for Group 1.
I agree that Group 2 is more and more popular, with UMC families and they are often choosing ED to lock in a slot, when they think they won't get into Group 1. 
Of Group 3, which would you pay full price? I think this is the group that Jeff Selingo is talking about people preferring a state school, though some of these schools are extremely popular.

Group 1: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, U Chicago, Rice

Group 2: Vanderbilt, ND, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, WashU St.Louis, USC, NYU, BC, Tufts, BU

Group 3: Lehigh, Rochester, Wake Forest, CWRU, Northeastern, Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara, GW, Syracuse, Villanova, Tulane, Pepperdine, Stevens Inst. Tech, WPI, Marquette, Fordham, SMU, Baylor, Gonzaga, LMU, Drexel, RIT, TCU, USD

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But Group 3 tends to be where the merit money comes into play.  So the question is really (assuming most people would pay for Group 1 if possible) would you full pay Group 2 or look for merit in Group 3?  Group 3, so far for my kids, is coming in between 50-60K a year (the ones they applied to, obviously not all of them).  Which is still expensive, and may not end up being enough merit money, but a lot better than the 85-90k a year in Group 2.  Mine did not apply to any in Group 2 because there is no chance of merit.  [/quote]

Some of these in group 3 are NOT known for giving much merit unless that has changed this year. Seriously, quote me some Villanova numbers. [/quote]

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