<p>Okay back to the topic, I justified a reach over financial safety because I convinced myself that the schools my kids chose were the best ones for them. I do not believe that a school needs to justify itself in terms of a financial return on my investment - so potential earnings did not play into the equation. The question in my mind is this a place where my kids can best thrive and receive an education? Now, each kid was torn between two schools and I was too, each would have nurtured them intellectually in different ways. I let my kids make that choice as I felt the same way they did, they had excellent choices each with their pluses and minuses. </p>