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<p>You are confusing what I said. I said if it were between Harvard and WashU (with much reduced tuition), I would then hestitate. This is assuming that you’d go through the trouble to apply at the first place and that doesn’t apply to you. Harvard has the unrivaled brand-name and people do give up scholarships from another first-tier school for Harvard (when they apply and then actually get accepted). If all you care about is “better education” (in this case, best value eduation), you wouldn’t turn down WashU at much cheaper rate for Brown/Penn when you don’t even know if Brown/Penn provides better education than WashU (I personally don’t think so; WashU has higher SAT score than Penn so you can’t use that as justification to turn down WashU) at the first place. None of us knows better than yourself how much you feel you “have to” get out of St. Louis.</p>