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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all, I just want to acknowledge how lucky my DS is to have these two choices, but, as a family we are very much torn between the two.

We are in a very fortunate position to be able to afford both schools BUT Yale would be an additional ~35k/year. Now, my husband is in favor of Penn State purely from a financial perspective - his thinking is that, if the education is exactly the same, why pay 35k more? His thinking is that if he goes to Penn State, that 35k could be then put towards either graduate school (if DS decides to go or for a house down payment). DS loves Yale, and wants to go there.

I am in the middle, I can see the financial argument but I am concerned that my son might miss out on a unique opportunity....so we are stuck.

I am posting here because I'd very much appreciate your perspective - if the education he will receive is pretty much the same at Yale and Penn State, then what other non-academic factors should we be weighing and thinking about?

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The education and the connections are not the same - Yale is a different level.  That said, I definitely know graduates of Yale that are not the cheerleaders for their own school that Penn State grads are.  The Penn State grads I know - to a person - are HUGE fans of their school.  Which I think says something.  They both have good alumni connections - just, I think, Yale may have better or higher connections.  At Yale might be harder to stand out academically.  And if your kid comes from less than top 1% means - that difference will be more noticeable, at least at first, at Yale.  That may be exciting, or it may be daunting, or it may be neither, depending on the kid.[/quote]

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