I am certainly not picking on IVY, but the jacka** picking on the kid that chose Highpoint needs to take a step back off of his high horse.
Not everyone wants or needs IVY. Most IVY don't go on to get an MBA from WHarton...and the schmuck that said that most IVY kids make $500k per year is clearly out of touch with reality.
Interview for Wall St every day and the pile is thick with IVY for entry level jobs. they don't have MBA and clearly no special skill, just another kid straddled with huge debt for the next ten years.
My IVY bound will leave the institution with zero debt as it will be paid by me. That is my gift to him for all of his hard work.
The concept was to use lax as a tool to get him into the best school possible. Period.
The advantage and ball is in his court. What he does with it will remain to be seen. If I could not afford to do so; I would have directed him to take the commit offers from schools that offer but a realistic small percentage of the overall costs.
