<p>If she stays in the science field, the work she has done and her skills will matter more than school name. At any rate, Rochester, CWRU, and Tulane have good brand names, but they aren’t MIT or Princeton where I think there’s significant network value that you can put a price on. So it may be worth paying the price if she finds big experiential differences (intrinsic value of the private school), but not for brand name (extrinsic value).</p>