[.cnI redruM]

I guess I would then question why Swarthmore became more popular after it raised its tuition. Apparently, the higher price tag had a significant amount to do with why people chose to go there.

It could be argued that this is no more sinister than a fashionable lady wanting her man to buy her a Louis Voitton. However, I woke up this morning with the tin foil firmly affixed to my cranium. Though all that foil got cold walking to the metro today; it kept the extra-terrestrial leftism rays at bay.

[Old North State]

I agree that an Ivy League educations can be considered "Veblen Goods", but I have a harder time accepting that the effect washes down to every State College in the land. I think the more general problem is that financial officers at good, solid, mega-schools like Ohio State and Michigan figure out what potential applicants can pay and set their tuition. They don't compete with Princeton and Yale (only a fool would send a child to Harvard)