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20-year ROI tiers based on the Georgetown ROI study:

$1 million: Stanford, MIT 
$950k-$1 million: Harvard 
$900k-$950k: Georgetown 
$850k-$900k: Penn, Harvey Mudd 
$800k-$850k: Caltech, Yale, Georgia Tech, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Princeton 
$750-$800k: Lehigh 
$700-$750k: Notre Dame, Cornell, Washington and Lee, Dartmouth 
$650-$600k: Claremont McKenna, Tufts, USC, JHU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Case Western, Boston College, WashU, Rice, Berkeley, UChicago, Michigan, 
$600-$650k: Cooper Union, Lafayette, Baruch, GWU, Emory, Northeastern, UMD, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Brown, UCLA, UWashington, Bowdoin, Amherst, Virginia Tech, UIUC, Colgate, UCSD, BYU, UVA, Drexel 
$550k-$600k: Rutgers, Trinity (CT), U of Richmond, UC Irvine, Union, George Mason, Pomona, UT-Austin, Stony Brook, Pepperdine, UC Davis, Wellesley, Florida, Texas A&M, William & Mary, UConn, Colby, Davidson, Wake Forest, Hamilton, BU, UNC, Williams, Barnard 
$500-$550k: SMU, Wisconsin-Madison, UMiami, UC Santa Barbara, Rochester, Bates, Syracuse, Haverford, University of Utah, Franklin & Marshall, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Clemson, Dickinson, AU, NYU, Minnesota, Fordham, University of New Hampshire, Georgia, CUNY, University of Rhode Island, Brandeis, Bryn Mawr

40-year ROI tiers:

$2 million: Stanford, MIT 
$1.9 million: Harvard, Babson, Georgetown 
$1.8 million: Harvey Mudd, Penn, Caltech 
$1.7 million: Yale, Columbia, Duke, CMU, Georgia Tech 
$1.6 million: Lehigh, Princeton, Notre Dame, Cornell 
$1.5 million: Washington & Lee, Villanova, Dartmouth, Tufts, USC, Case Western, Claremont McKenna, JHU 
$1.4 million: BC, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Holy Cross, UChicago, GWU, Bucknell, Cal Poly, Lafayette 
$1.3 million: Rice, Northeastern, Berkeley, Brown, Drexel, Emory, Michigan, Bowdoin, Amherst, Trinity, UMD, Colgate, Union, U of Richmond, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UCLA 
$1.2 million: UIUC, BU, UVA, Wake Forest, Baruch, UCSD, BYU, UWashington, Wellesley, George Mason, UC Irvine, Hamilton, Syracuse, UT-Austin, Pomona, UC Davis, SMU, Rochester, Davidson, William & Mary, Stony Brook, UConn, Texas A&M, UMiami, Colby, Haverford, Williams, Delaware, Rutgers, U of Baltimore, NYU, Florida, Bates, Barnard 
$1.1 million: AU, Franklin and Marshall, Middlebury, UNC, Purdue, James Madison, Wisconsin-Madison, Fordham, Swarthmore, UC Santa Barbara, Dickinson, UIC, Brandeis, Yeshiva, Gettysburg, Utah, Michigan State, Bryn Mawr, Clemson, Vassar 
$1 million: U of Rhode Island, Minnesota, Connecticut College, Wesleyan, U of New Hampshire, Carleton, Georgia, UPitt, UMass-Amherst, Colorado-Boulder, Temple, CCNY, Wofford, Furman, Hampden-Sydney, Indiana-Bloomington, U of Kansas, Elon, Occidental, Baylor 
900k: Howard, Arizona, Auburn, Skidmore, Grinnell, Denison, Oklahoma State, Kalamazoo, U of Vermont, U of Nevada-Las Vegas

Most privates are a scam. Basically, if you don’t have a trust fund or make $1 mil or more annually, or if your kid isn’t attending the top privates (T20-25) in this country, then it really isn’t worth paying $200k+ for college. Better to attend your local flagship public schools. Especially LACs. Terrible ROI with decreasing name recognition.[/quote]

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