[krb]

An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.

[9YearLurker]

Absolutely. And in quality of life measures beyond income.

But in a world of subsidized lending for college, who cares about the ROI on tuition anyway? Only absolute return should matter.

[SeekAndFind]

An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.

Here's a theoretical case --- you have been accepted to an Ivy but will have to pay over $50,000/year board a lodging. You were also accepted by a good State University where you only pay $15,000/year for the same.

Which one will be the value for money ? Will the state university be worth LESS in the long run ?

[flowerplough]

An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.

Trouble is, the doors an Ivy League education opens are Barney Frank's door, and Jamie Gorelick's door, and Franklin Raines' door. Both George Bushes, and both Obamas. Forgive me for mentioning it, but why any self-respecting human being would be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get in line to kiss some of those infamous asses is beyond me. Ivy League might be worth it to you and yours, but...

[shhrubbery!]

An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.

This may be true, certainly for gov't and quasi-gov't positions like Fannie Mae, and prestigious financial insitutions ... whatever remains of them after the ongoing shake-out.

But at some point I wonder if private employers will start to recognize that Ivy grads are not as good hires as someone from, say, Grove City College or Georgia State.

Someone here on FR posted once that he was already seeing employers shy away from hiring Ivy grads, who tended to hold themselves in too high esteem and to underperform.

[lonestar]

An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.

They seem to have mastered learning to make $millions from what should be illegal, legal.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“An Ivy League education will open doors for the rest of your life. Damn right it’s worth it.”

But it shouldn’t. Having spent time at both state and Ivy universities it is my opinion that the Ivy universities are extremely overrated. In some fields I would say that certain Ivy League Universities are significantly inferior. The other interesting thing to note is that many of the best people on the faculty at Ivy universities did not train at Ivy universities.