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chaos: by saying "In the end, I guess it's not my place to judge where people decide to go to college for themselves, but I still think it might of been better for them (at a financial cost) if they had chosen to go to 'better' schools."
you're exemplifying the "brand name" chasing that is so unfortunate in college admissions now. Like other posters said, the schools you listed are absolutely fantastic colleges. If you think that they are missing out, you're sadly mistaken.
But the words you use "beneath people" "better schools" belie something more insidious, I'm afraid. I graduated from an HYP college and work in the non-profit sector where my associates definitely are degree-optional. Heck, a HS diploma is the life's achievement for many people around me. They aren't "beneath" me except by superficial measures. I hope you learn that lesson one day.
You may find yourself not in an "elite" college, your future spouse not to have graduated from an "elite" college, your kids rejected by "elite" colleges, yours kids' pediatricians and loving teachers not having graduated from "elite" colleges, the caregivers who will spend hours with your dying parents not graduated from "elite" colleges. Oh my? What WILL you do?
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