[SeekAndFind]

Of course, I only went to an Ivy for grad school, and they payed me to be there, so maybe I have a biased view. :-)

That doesn't count in these discussions. We're talking about PAYING for an Ivy League Education vs. PAYING for a Good Public University.

Of course if a Harvard or Yale is going to pay for your tuition, you'd by foolish not to go for it.

[The_Reader_David]

Yes, but a graduate fellowship is just the extreme case of what is generally the case with the Ivy’s and similarly exclusive private universities: almost no one pays ‘rack rate’ except the rich whose kids get in on legacy or ‘leadership’ rather than grades.

My daughter went to Mount Holyoke, not an Ivy, but one of the ‘Seven Sisters’ from back in the day when the Ivy’s were men only, and there were comparably elite women’s colleges, and we paid about what a state university would have cost—a little more than it would have cost to send her to one here in Kansas, but less than U. Mass. Amherst would have cost us (and Massachusetts doesn’t have as huge an in-state/out-of-state differential as most states do).