As an HYP undergraduate alum who was also offered a Regents’ scholarship a Berkeley, I agree with these two, and with Happy Alum. From college onwards, the name of my alma mater alone opened up more doors than I ever imagined going in, and the value of these opportunities was worth far more than the difference in tuition. If the two are equally priced or Yale is cheaper, than the choice is easy IMO.
People on CC like to say that graduate school matters more. But s*** happens, and there’s no guarantee that one will get the excellent grades or boards needed to get into these schools. That’s especially true at a highly competitive environment like the one at Berkeley.
So why take that gamble when your D has already gotten into Yale for undergraduate. and as Happy Alum wrote, that alone can make a big difference in some fields, even in the absence of an excellent graduate school education. (The fact that a few schools may have been imperfectly classified in the Vanderbilt L&E Journal study does not invalidate the study.)