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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it causes financial hardship, then no.[/quote] [b]Even if it causes financial hardship, then yes.[/b] Some things are worth the sacrifice. And my kid's education is one of them. If your kid was from Indiana deciding between these two schools and UVA was much cheaper, I might consider UVA. But for a kid from Virginia? UC Berkeley for sure. [/quote] Not Cal. Stanford, maybe (depends on magnitude of hardship and the kid), but not Cal. If the alternative were a much lower ranked state school or coming from a much less diverse area than DC-area, maybe. I'm saying this as a Stanford alum from Michigan who actually would, at the time, have preferred to go to Berkeley. My dad was adamant that he would not pay out-of-state tuition for a public school when we had the option of in-state tuition at UofM. At the time, Berkeley was still better ranked than UofM, but in retrospect he was absolutely right. Depending on the major and your kid, there is a very high probability that you will be paying for five years of tuition at Berkeley, given some of the vagaries of how difficult it is to get into classes. And while many schools offer excellent education, there are non-educational benefits to the elite privates that even the highest ranked publics don't offer. If money is no object, send your kid wherever you think they will thrive. If it is not, like my dad I would not endure financial hardship or even financial inconvenience to pay out-of-state tuition at a public school if I had UVa as an option.[/quote]
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