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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on which Ivy and which major.  Not saying either and asking if it's worth it doesn't make much sense.[/quote]

+1.  It also depends on your personal financial situation, child’s ambitions, etc. A kid who wants to be a Supreme Court justice someday and they just got into Yale?  Sure, stretch for it. A kid who seems like a natural-born engineer who wants to work for NASA someday and they just got into Cornell? Sure. [b] A kid who isn’t sure what they want and is planning to major in English and they got into Dartmouth?  Well, I probably wouldn’t.[/b]  [/quote]

That’s the kid who needs the brand name that a top school offers. State school job outcomes have been decimated over the past 2 years.  It’s crabs in a bucket, and a laid back kid like this will get eaten alive. [/quote]

Ivies and similar are worth it for the humanities majors perhaps more than other majors, if one is not sure what they want to do.
It is also goal dependent not merely major:
If one is 99% sure they want to be a teacher or social worker, no need for the ivy
If one is merely over 50% interested in phD, MD, JD, finance, consulting, starting their own tech company, then they will significantly benefit from being at an ivy/T10. Below average students (3.5+) can achieve any of thtoae goals from an ivy. 3.9+ which is Top-quarter to top half depending on the ivy, become in range to make it to top-20 phd or MD, T14 law whoch open doors to the top levels of research, academic and rarer specialties in med, and top law careers. Most peers will be chasing similar goals and most will get there. That environment has no pricetag. [/quote]

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