Originally posted by Brandon
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For one thing, some (if not all) Ivy League schools offer income-based tuition schedules. Students coming from households earning less than $65,000/year often pay no tuition. Harvard claims that 20% of its student body qualifies for free tuition, and also claims that even families earning up to $150,000/year qualify for some tuition assistance. Yale/Brown/Dartmouth/Brown/Penn/Cornell are probably all different though, but I know that's a common feature. "A lot" is a subjective term - I didn't mean the majority, I just meant more than a handful.
Secondly, "state schools" are a mixed bag. Some are quite rigorous, others are not. I have two state school degrees and I often wonder if I should have tried shooting a little higher. The low tuition was nice, but the range of opportunities I'm afforded for having such a degree is sparse at best. That's just my personal experience. In Minnesota, only one of our public universities has any rigor remotely comparable to that of the Ivy League. Not all colleges are made the same, nor should they be.
There is certainly nothing wrong with attending a state school. I did. We need them, they serve a valuable purpose - but there is a reason your average Winona State student isn't going to cut it at Harvard.
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