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<p>As a Duke graduate, I stand by my earlier comment that no school is worth paying $220k for a bachelor’s degree. My comment assumes that the student’s family is paying the full freight without any financial aid. I feel that I received an excellent education at Duke, but my cost of attendance was substantially lower than the sticker price because of a very generous financial aid package (I came from a single parent, lower income, rural household). I don’t believe for a second that the education that I received at Duke was so vastly superior to the education that I would have received at the University of [your state here] that it would have been worth paying full price. My daughter has happily attended a state university for the past four years and is going on to vet school. Considering that vet school is a tougher admit than medical school, I would say that she did just fine at a state university – and she’s graduating with less than 10k in student loans.</p>