<p>Well Pdaddy you have a point with the second part of your statement but the whole thing with saving money isnt logical if you look at from their point of view. First of all everyone isnt gonna "grow a brain" and switch to State school education, so the rich, well educated parents are going to send their kids to HYP, to not only get an excellent education, but to also let their kids develop connections with the countries future leaders and head hanchos. Truthfully, I think that you can get an excellent education at a state school too, but an Ivy name takes you a lot further in some cases. I cant argue, Princeton has a lot of dedicated professors and lots of resources, but I still feel you attend Princeton more for meeting intellectually stimulating people and making connections for the future (at least on the rich kid's parent's point of view).</p>