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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you wealthy? If so, then whatever. If not, then JMU for teaching. If you think he’ll or want him to) consider other majors, then go to a school with a range of majors and focus on getting summer internships. [/quote]

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Unless you are wealthy, why would you spend $80K+/year for college.  Where you go to school does NOT matter at all for education majors, other than it's best to attend school in a state you want to live in later, since you have to be certified in that state.  Absolutely no reason to go to an elite school for that....it's literally a waste of money.  Teacher salaries arebased on years of experience and highest degree, nothing else.  [/quote]

Because you're paying for the experience, the connections, etc.  Because life is long and what you start out doing at 21 is rarely what you're doing at 30 or 40 or 50.  Because having an elite university on your resume will help with all subsequent jobs and graduate school admissions, even if you're 10 years removed from anything to do with your college major. Because many people meet their spouse at college and almost everyone meets many of their closest friends and life-long connections.

I really have zero expectation that whatever my kid studies at 18-21 will determine what they're doing professionally at 30.  I went to medical school as an English major.  My husband went to law school as a chemical engineer.  My brother works in finance as a philosophy undergrad (and grad!) major.  My sister works in marketing as an education major.  My cousin studied computer science and also went to medical school.  Her husband went to law school after 3 degrees in Spanish language studies.

We're all successful adults with (frankly) large salaries.  None of us ended up in our terminal occupations until after 30.  Some of us are considering switching occupations entirely at age 50.  Life is long.  College has far more value than being a technical or professional school.  
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