激情过后的冷静：钱. My $0.02

Yes, all private top schools are very expensive for most of the middle class families. The question one must ask themself - why do you spend extra hard earned money to send your child to an expensive college.

If all you are looking for is a job to make a good living, I would suggest that you take the public school with merit $$. Afterall, for most of the jobs, where you get the ultimate graduate degree is more important. After 5 years of employment, none of these schools makes one bit of differences.

On the other hand, if you want to give your child a best college experience you could afford, send them to the top private. There are so many reasons for that and you will have to find your own.

Practically, going to a public is like a big fish in a small pond. For example, Ohio state awards 10 presidential scholarships. The whole school is behind these 10 and they will do their very best to send these ten to best graduate schools or earn national name awards. However, they have to sit in classes with other students who only care about how much beer could they drink in 30 seconds etc. Also, the 4 year graduation rate at any public state school is very low.

At the expensive private - you could get very generours need based FA if you really have demonstrated needs. Also, there are plenty of jobs on campus and it is very easy, if you want to work, to make $10~15K a year. Especially for those older students, a good intern could make over $10K per summer.

So, it is your money and your child. I am sending mine to the one he/she wants to go. Evenso that may mean we have to get loans to cover the cost. Evenso all they want to be is a national park ranger after college.

In one person's life, how much time could one spend at a college? I would not deny my childen's desire because of $$.

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• Well said. I can't agree more. Money is not everything. -2Kids- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 11:16:07

• 说得很好。印象中你好象是开大奔，孩子拿很多钱的，能否分享诀窍？ -ctimeagain- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 11:51:54

• Here is my 诀窍 for you？ -Big_Benz- ♂ (261 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:24:52

• 对ohio state university 那段有很大出入。 -A-Momy- ♀ (376 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 11:57:00

• 顶A妈！Go Buckeye! -nj_guy- ♂ (99 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:07:22

• I agree with you on this point -Big_Benz- ♂ (206 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:21:58

• 这么说吧，好学生不会寂寞的。也不会不被challenged。 -A-Momy- ♀ (69 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:27:47

• It is same as driving a car. -myspace123- ♀ (264 bytes) () 01/04/2010 postreply 15:29:49

• 社会活动搞的好也不容易 -A-Momy- ♀ (144 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:30:41

• College is not a person's entire life -wuya- ♂ (1135 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:06:46

• Exactly my point -big_benz- ♂ (511 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 12:19:08

• College非常有可能影响人的一生。career在College选定的，配偶在College找的，朋友是College 的。 -windlight- ♀ (90 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 17:46:39

• 如果家里不差钱当然不一样，不过多数人负担不起让孩子上头等私校然后去找 -gqc- ♀ (141 bytes) () 01/03/2010 postreply 15:36:33