<p>I would recommend you attend an elite school. </p>
<p>While many studies predict that there is little difference in future income based on which college you attend, the same studies suggest that for black students, Latino students, low-income students and students whose parents did not graduate from college, there is a significant increase in earnings from attending an elite school. </p>
<p>You can read the NY Times discussion here.</p>
<p><a href=“http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/revisiting-the-value-of-elite-colleges[/url]”>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/revisiting-the-value-of-elite-colleges</a></p>
<p>The original Princeton paper is here. </p>
<p><a href=“http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp01gf06g265z/1/563.pdf[/url]”>http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp01gf06g265z/1/563.pdf</a></p>