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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I went to the graduation party of my nephew who just graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Computer Science (3.7 GPA), and accepted an offer to work at AWS for 125k.  DS just also graduated from GMU with a degree in Computer Science (3.9 GPA) and he got an offer from Google for 195k.  My SIL paid almost 300k for her son to attend UPenn while I paid about 52k for GMU (DS lived at home while attending GMU).  [/quote]

You son will be known as a commuter school graduate for the rest of his life, and your nephew a Ivy League grad.[/quote]

As shallow as it may sound, it’s a social reality.[/quote]

Look, I went to Penn, this is silly. GMU had become a very respectable school where a kid can get a good education and it’s particularly strong in CS. The college experience is different than what you’ll have at Penn and I don’t think everything is about starting salary at all, but bottom line is both these kids are going to do well and the GMU kid can be proud of their degree. I don’t think OP should be denigrating the nephew for paying more for the Penn experience but that’s a different issue. [/quote]

By Op's logic, she should have sent her kid to a Jr college for 2 years and then transferred to GMU. She could have saved even more money that way for the same pay check. [/quote]

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