“I know 3 people with wealth that reaches into 8 figures, in one case perhaps into 9 figures. They are also successful in their personal lives. None had more than a middle-class upbringing. Wow, where did they go to school? One attended a state flagship ranked probably just above the middle of state flagships; one attended a second-tier public university; and one attended a third-tier public in a state with a very poor reputation for higher education. Guess which one might be worth 9 figures? Two went to elite grad schools, one did not go to grad school.”
IMO, getting a college education is more than making X amount of money. Where I live, in the past 25 years, you could have by-passed college altogether, got your Realtor’s license and made a ton I money buying and selling homes.
The one thing about an excellent education is that it stays with you for the rest of your life. As one of my fiends who attended Y both undergrad and med school said “education can never be taken away from you”. I agree…