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Message: [QUOTE="J187Money, post: 3076148, member: 718"] I was a top student - and almost everyone I knew went Ivy or equivalent. With my grades/scores/etc - I could have done the same - but finances dictated that I did not. I went to UCONN under duress. And it didn't hurt me at all. I ultimately got an Ivy league MBA - but what I learned is that if you get good grades at any good school you can get a good job - and then it is on you to perform. I also work in NYC with lots of people that are pressing their kids / spending $40K/year on private high schools etc and I'm just choosing not to play. My kids go to public school and I've basically told them that I will pay for college as long as I see the value there. My older son got into UCONN. He wanted to run and ended up going to a private school outside Boston. He also got $25K/year in academic scholarships - so I said fine - net it costs me about the same as UCONN or maybe a little more. He is super happy, even though it is objectively a "worse" school than UCONN. But his grades are great and he is happy and he loves running so it is a win/win. And if you told me that I would be sending him to a private catholic d3 school I would have bet the farm against it, and here we are. There are exceptions, but generally people end up where they are supposed to be. Smart, driven people will be successful no matter where they go to school - or even if they don't go to school at all. [/QUOTE]