Unfortunately, WAAAYY too many parents are willing to 'pay the price' and 'buy the name'. There is a way to cut the cost in half - Wellesley College, a hot bed of lesbianism and socialist feminism - a neighbor's daughter attended for her last 2 years of college to get the degree (first two years she went to a local junior college). Voila! the education was half-price, as an upper classman she didn't have to fend off lesbians in the dorms, she only had to deal with 1/2 the anti-mail, pro-lesbian indoctrination from lecturers, and she can go around telling everyone that she is a Wellesley graduate.
That's the way to do it. When you go in as a junior, you're older and know the ropes so you won't be as easily bamboozled as an incoming freshman would probably be.
Oops! That would be 'anti-male' not 'anti-mail'. Sorry.