<p>
</p>
<p>*Schools you have applied to</p>
<p>harvard
yale
brown
columbia
upenn
dartmouth
hopkins
duke
emory
georgetown
vanderbilt
washu*</p>
<p>Your question is not one that can really answered by strangers, especially in the absence of information. Some essential information include:</p>
<p>1) Major. If you want to get a degree in accounting as opposed to say art history or English literature, there are different pay offs. (as pointed out by MomofJandL)
2) If you are looking at Med school, then you need a place where you can excell and get a high GPA. Some of less prestigious institutions can be good spring boards to medical school, not all medical school students are from the top 15 institutions. So where do you think you have the best chances of going to med school?
3) How much money can you afford. Some parents can pay $80,000 a year and not miss a heart beat, others are comfortable with $40,000 but can stretch to $55,000. If you are in the stretch category, then I would say stick to the higher ivy’s. If you are not in the stretch category, all are worth it.
4) Do you have money for med school (or law school or big name MBA etc.)? If a parents could afford about say $300 K total, I would suggest you should not go to a costly undergraduate institution but save it for med school or professional school, in other words none of those schools are worth it.</p>
<p>So bottom line is, if you have the right major and the ability to finance without loans and also finance any professional education after undergraduate, all those institutions are worth it. If you have some limitations, then most may not be worth it.</p>