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[quote=Anonymous][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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Good list. I’d pay for Group 1 and Group 2 full price. Most of Group 3 gives merit. I’d be fine paying Group 3 with a discounted rate.[/quote]

Even if the discounted rate all-in was close to $70k? Tuition, room & board, university program fees?[/quote]

DP. IME, the “discounted” rate was $45-50k (all in). It was remarkably consistent from all schools DC was admitted to. Some smaller schools give a discount to everyone that is around $15k, but I’m thinking of more when I think of “merit” aid. [/quote]

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