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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's what my daughters would call a "flex," a status symbol which makes less affluent people jealous.

[b]Also, private college is the same price as OOS tuition at a public university. [/b]If you had the savings to afford private, it doesn't matter if the kid wants to go to Wisconsin or SMU or NYU. The parents and grandparents just let the kid decide; there's immense joy in providing a kid or grandkid with a ticket to go to college anywhere they want.[/quote]

That's not necessarily true at all, and it can go either direction.  Some privates give lots of merit aid to bring the cost down closer to/the same as in-state public schools (I went to a private college for less than the state flagship would have cost at the time due to a large merit scholarship).  And some publics don't charge OOS tuition as high as privates.  At UMD, OOS tuition is $36,683, and at VT, it's $33,857, which is much less than privates (tuition at Allegheny College, for example, is $51,910).  Some publics do charge a lot OOS, though, like UMich at $52,904.

Purdue's OOS tuition is $28,794.  So if you're interesting in engineering, it's interesting to think about whether you would prefer UMD, Purdue for about 70k more, or UMich for about 160k more.[/quote]

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