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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Arlington and I attended an Ivy. But the cost is too high now and I’ll encourage my kids to apply to state schools. I bet there are a lot of others in similar situations.[/quote]

Same for me. I went to Yale but can’t afford an Ivy for my daughter. She can go to any in state school in Virginia. [/quote]

[b]I find it telling that so many Ivy grads can’t afford to send their kid to an Ivy[/b]. DH and I both went to a state school. We can easily afford private HS,  Ivy tuition, second home, etc. I guess it’s really not the golden ticket everyone thinks it is. Smart kids do well wherever they go. [/quote]

Yep! The prestige and benefits are short-lived.[/quote]

I will say that my ivy league undergrad ed gave me an advantage several times in my life -- getting a job after college; getting into law school after working for several years out of undergrad; and then getting back into the work force after being a lawyer several years then taking time off with the kids.  I am not good at building relationships with people who might give me a job in the future and this was useful for me instead; it really did help.[/quote]

I think you can get the same (or better) advantage from an Ivy League grad school though. I went to a top 3 law school, and there were more students coming from state schools and lower ranked liberal arts colleges in my law school class than there were from Ivy League undergrads. And many of those students were entering law school with a lot less student loan debt. If you have to fund a $90k/yr undergrad with all student loans, it does leave you saddled with a lot of debt for a long time, especially if you then load grad school debt on top of it. 
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I think you are right for some grad schools — particularly law and med but wrong for others.  ,lI am thinking of grad schools like education at Columbia or divinity at Yale or the accounting thing at Columbia.   Great grad programs for sure but I don’t think you get the same value as say HLS.  Business school is a bit on the fence for me.  Clearly you can by helped by Harvard and Wharton but I’m not so convinced that business school at Columbia or Cornell gets you a whole lot more than Princeton undergrad.  Bottom line: for me your post is true for some kids but for other kids undergrad still matters. There are other benefits of an undergrad ivy-like education which I would acknowledge but aren’t relevant to your post about cache.  [/quote]

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