<p>I can think of a few schools in my native area (NJ) that I might not say are totally bad, but are definitely not worth the incredibly high tuition that they charge. One I transferred out of into a state school & told my parents they had been wasting their money. The other had a reputation for being where people with money sent their less than average students; the few people I worked with who had degrees from there validated that viewpoint.</p>
<p>This is not an “expensive schools are bad” mindset; it’s just that when a school has a pricetag roughly equal to Princeton, you should have greater rigor than the local state university. But that might just be me…</p>