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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to 2 years of NOVA and 2.5  years of GMU to earn my bachelor's 10+ years ago. I saved a ton of money doing it that way.
Funny thing is now I work with a bunch of folks that went to UVA, Ivy's, and private colleges. We make the same, have the same types of jobs, work for the same company, and I don't have a load of college debt to repay. 
Who's laughing now?[/quote]
Most ivy and top school graduates do not have college debt.

Those schools have so much money they can easily offer money to those who wish to attend. That's the very reason I've only done ivy .

Furthermore , the second you and your ivy colleagues decide to move on and start submitting your resumes, guess who'll have more interviews lined up?

Ivy and top school grads will always laugh longer and louder than you.[/quote]That is not true.  You may have benefitted from the coffers but many have and do not.  Unless it's Princeton or Harvard and non-Ivy Stanford whose financial aid programs leave you without loans, you can anticipate obtaining loans from the other Ivys if needed.  I know many people who are had loans, one being my dentist who attended UPenn, nephew who was given $5000 from Brown, sister who attended Columbia, etc, etc.

I am not talking about families who attend free because they earn less than $60,000-90,000.  These were staunchly middle-class families.[/quote]

I'm staunchly middle class as well and still benefited from the coffers. Most people I knew at the ivies left debt free. And of course, there were many, many families who did not any type of financial assistance at all.

I do know of a pretty well-known local figure many years ago who talked about how he left college (Brown) with a loan the size of a mortgage! :shock:

Yeah, in those situations, it's definitely best to go someplace cheaper.

But assuming that everyone with an ivy degree is in debt just to make oneself feel better about the less than impressive GMU degree is ridiculous. Ivies graduate thousands of students each year. I still believe most of them leave debt free.

PS: Just $5,000 from Brown would've made me send DC to another school if I didn't have the balance at the ready.[/quote]

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