<p>My oldest chose an Ivy because he knew he wanted to go to law school and so picked a school that would best position him as a future lawyer. If he had chosen a college based on the best college experience, and not what it would do for his future career, he might have chosen differently. My youngest is free from the constraints of worrying about grad school and so is focusing on where she’ll get the college experience she’s dreamed of – and not where the school is ranked or who has heard of it. Both are fair choices, but we’ll see in a decade or so who looks back most fondly on those years.</p>