Student Turns Down ALL the Ivies and other Elites for.....The University of Alabama! Bama Wins!

[jym626]

This was posted in the past when the issue of whether attending a top school is/is not worth the investment:

Attending a selective college is likely to be worth the investment.
Going to a selective, wealthy institution of higher education may indeed be worth the investment (and not just for getting appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court). Colleges with low selectivity spend about $12,000 per student, compared with $92,000 per student at the most selective institutions. Moreover, in the wealthiest 10 percent of institutions, students pay just 20 cents for every dollar spent on them, compared with the poorest 10 percent of
institutions, where students pay 78 cents of every dollar spent on them. Selective institutions are much more likely to graduate equally qualified students than less-selective colleges and universities. Earnings are 45 percent higher for students who graduated from more-selective institutions, particularly low-income students. And according to research
by Thomas Dye, 54 percent of America’s corporate leaders and 42 percent of government leaders are graduates of just twelve institutions.

As for the subject of this thread, I agree with those who said there are many other schools that likely would have given this student a lot of scholarship money (eg U Miami (Fl) perhaps Duke, UNC-Ch Hill, OSU, and many others) that might have been worth exploring. Oh qwell- water under the bridge.