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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

I'm an Ivy graduate (double) and knew several people back in my day 30 years ago who turned down Ivies for much cheaper schools and all have done extremely well. I also know plenty who went to the Ivies and have done no better than had they gone to their flagships, ending up in nice UMC lives but not elite. And I also know people who went to Ivies who effectively failed to take off in life. There's more than you'd think.

The percent of Ivy, even HYP, grads who go on to elite outcomes is small, a minority of all HYP graduates.

UF is a pretty good state university. At one time I'd have agreed HYP and the other Ivies would offer better overall educational experience, but that's much more subjective these days, it is probably much easier to graduate from HYP with a mediocre to useless education nowadays. A bright kid can absolutely get a great education at a big flagship.

But we aren’t talking about Cornell or Columbia. I attended a T10 college and T5 Ivy law school. The names alone have opened many doors for me. I did not attend Harvard but my spouse did. Take a look at the red books, you significantly underestimate the number of graduates with elite outcomes.

Florida has an ok reputation but because it provides free tuition to so many, is significantly underresourced and heavily relies on online classes. There are other schools that offer a high quality education beyond the elite universities. Florida just isn’t one of them.

If you are capable enough to get accepted at HYP, you can get an elite outcome from elsewhere. These schools do not have a lock on elite outcomes. Chicken or egg situation.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

I'm an Ivy graduate (double) and knew several people back in my day 30 years ago who turned down Ivies for much cheaper schools and all have done extremely well. I also know plenty who went to the Ivies and have done no better than had they gone to their flagships, ending up in nice UMC lives but not elite. And I also know people who went to Ivies who effectively failed to take off in life. There's more than you'd think.

The percent of Ivy, even HYP, grads who go on to elite outcomes is small, a minority of all HYP graduates.

UF is a pretty good state university. At one time I'd have agreed HYP and the other Ivies would offer better overall educational experience, but that's much more subjective these days, it is probably much easier to graduate from HYP with a mediocre to useless education nowadays. A bright kid can absolutely get a great education at a big flagship.

But we aren’t talking about Cornell or Columbia. I attended a T10 college and T5 Ivy law school. The names alone have opened many doors for me. I did not attend Harvard but my spouse did. Take a look at the red books, you significantly underestimate the number of graduates with elite outcomes.

Florida has an ok reputation but because it provides free tuition to so many, is significantly underresourced and heavily relies on online classes. There are other schools that offer a high quality education beyond the elite universities. Florida just isn’t one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can swing the cost, yes, definitely.

I am paying full price for an Ivy and feel great about it. I pay half tuition for another child’s lower ranked school and though it’s a “good” school I feel that the value isn’t there, even at a discounted cost. There is a huge dropoff in resources.

To add on - EVERY college is pinching pennies right now and making cuts. At a rich school there’s still so much leftover. At a less-rich school the food is noticeably worse than it was two years ago, dining hall hours are shorter, classes are harder to get, cool programs have been cut or “paused,” hiring is on hold and departments are short-staffed. The students feel the cuts and the overall experience is not what it was even a year or two ago.

What you described sounds like most liberal arts colleges, not the big state universities.

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth seems to no longer use the waitlist due to insane yields. They offer the best FA of the ivies which has a lot to do with it.

Probably Columbia which I would pass on. Your cost will be inanely higher in NYC on down the line. Any other ivy I would do it.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

It sounds like your entire family has bad judgment. Passing on H/Y/P for Florida, however, borders on criminally bad decision making. But here you are bragging about it.

DCUM never disappoints. WTF...

Having the money to send kid to an Ivy and instead sending to a school known for heavily relying on online classes is truly
a WTF decision.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

I'm an Ivy graduate (double) and knew several people back in my day 30 years ago who turned down Ivies for much cheaper schools and all have done extremely well. I also know plenty who went to the Ivies and have done no better than had they gone to their flagships, ending up in nice UMC lives but not elite. And I also know people who went to Ivies who effectively failed to take off in life. There's more than you'd think.

The percent of Ivy, even HYP, grads who go on to elite outcomes is small, a minority of all HYP graduates.

UF is a pretty good state university. At one time I'd have agreed HYP and the other Ivies would offer better overall educational experience, but that's much more subjective these days, it is probably much easier to graduate from HYP with a mediocre to useless education nowadays. A bright kid can absolutely get a great education at a big flagship.

But we aren’t talking about Cornell or Columbia. I attended a T10 college and T5 Ivy law school. The names alone have opened many doors for me. I did not attend Harvard but my spouse did. Take a look at the red books, you significantly underestimate the number of graduates with elite outcomes.

Florida has an ok reputation but because it provides free tuition to so many, is significantly underresourced and heavily relies on online classes. There are other schools that offer a high quality education beyond the elite universities. Florida just isn’t one of them.

There are studies that show the majority of CEOs went to regular state universities.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can swing the cost, yes, definitely.

I am paying full price for an Ivy and feel great about it. I pay half tuition for another child’s lower ranked school and though it’s a “good” school I feel that the value isn’t there, even at a discounted cost. There is a huge dropoff in resources.

To add on - EVERY college is pinching pennies right now and making cuts. At a rich school there’s still so much leftover. At a less-rich school the food is noticeably worse than it was two years ago, dining hall hours are shorter, classes are harder to get, cool programs have been cut or “paused,” hiring is on hold and departments are short-staffed. The students feel the cuts and the overall experience is not what it was even a year or two ago.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

I'm an Ivy graduate (double) and knew several people back in my day 30 years ago who turned down Ivies for much cheaper schools and all have done extremely well. I also know plenty who went to the Ivies and have done no better than had they gone to their flagships, ending up in nice UMC lives but not elite. And I also know people who went to Ivies who effectively failed to take off in life. There's more than you'd think.

The percent of Ivy, even HYP, grads who go on to elite outcomes is small, a minority of all HYP graduates.

UF is a pretty good state university. At one time I'd have agreed HYP and the other Ivies would offer better overall educational experience, but that's much more subjective these days, it is probably much easier to graduate from HYP with a mediocre to useless education nowadays. A bright kid can absolutely get a great education at a big flagship.

But we aren’t talking about Cornell or Columbia. I attended a T10 college and T5 Ivy law school. The names alone have opened many doors for me. I did not attend Harvard but my spouse did. Take a look at the red books, you significantly underestimate the number of graduates with elite outcomes.

Florida has an ok reputation but because it provides free tuition to so many, is significantly underresourced and heavily relies on online classes. There are other schools that offer a high quality education beyond the elite universities. Florida just isn’t one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

I'm an Ivy graduate (double) and knew several people back in my day 30 years ago who turned down Ivies for much cheaper schools and all have done extremely well. I also know plenty who went to the Ivies and have done no better than had they gone to their flagships, ending up in nice UMC lives but not elite. And I also know people who went to Ivies who effectively failed to take off in life. There's more than you'd think.

The percent of Ivy, even HYP, grads who go on to elite outcomes is small, a minority of all HYP graduates.

UF is a pretty good state university. At one time I'd have agreed HYP and the other Ivies would offer better overall educational experience, but that's much more subjective these days, it is probably much easier to graduate from HYP with a mediocre to useless education nowadays. A bright kid can absolutely get a great education at a big flagship.

But we aren’t talking about Cornell or Columbia. I attended a T10 college and T5 Ivy law school. The names alone have opened many doors for me. I did not attend Harvard but my spouse did. Take a look at the red books, you significantly underestimate the number of graduates with elite outcomes.

Florida has an ok reputation but because it provides free tuition to so many, is significantly underresourced and heavily relies on online classes. There are other schools that offer a high quality education beyond the elite universities. Florida just isn’t one of them.

Anonymous wrote:why do people ask these kind of questions? to one ivy might be worth it for the price ... to another it might not ... if kid gets in to an ivy ... let the kid choose ... do you want to hear ... what if i went to an ivy ... might resent the parents for a long time for not letting the kid go to an ivy

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

I'm an Ivy graduate (double) and knew several people back in my day 30 years ago who turned down Ivies for much cheaper schools and all have done extremely well. I also know plenty who went to the Ivies and have done no better than had they gone to their flagships, ending up in nice UMC lives but not elite. And I also know people who went to Ivies who effectively failed to take off in life. There's more than you'd think.

The percent of Ivy, even HYP, grads who go on to elite outcomes is small, a minority of all HYP graduates.

UF is a pretty good state university. At one time I'd have agreed HYP and the other Ivies would offer better overall educational experience, but that's much more subjective these days, it is probably much easier to graduate from HYP with a mediocre to useless education nowadays. A bright kid can absolutely get a great education at a big flagship.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

Yes I read it. Did you miss that I am a HYP grad with a lot more career years behind me than your son, and I disagree with him? I would never advise anyone to go to U Florida over an Ivy unless the Ivy was truly unaffordable.

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Anonymous wrote:My DS got accepted to one of the Ivies—think Princeton, Yale, or Harvard—but we would have had to pay the full cost, around $100K per year. He also got accepted to University of Florida with a full ride (tuition plus room and board).

We told him that he could attend UF and have $400K+ (depending on investment growth) waiting for him at graduation, or he could attend the Ivy. Seven years earlier, one of his older brothers had been in the exact same situation and chose to attend an Ivy League school, which he later regretted. His $300K could have grown into several million dollars. We’re not wealthy, so while money isn’t everything, it’s important to be able to live a stress-free life.

My older DS advised his younger brother to take the $400K and attend UF, and he did. He’ll be a freshman at UF in a few months.

YMMV.

let's see what he thinks of his decision later.

i was full pay at HYP. no regrets!

PP here. Did you fully read what I wrote before commenting? DS older brother paid full tuition at HYP and regretted the decision.

It sounds like your entire family has bad judgment. Passing on H/Y/P for Florida, however, borders on criminally bad decision making. But here you are bragging about it.

DCUM never disappoints. WTF...