<p>My opinion: In Minnesota most of our fortune 500 human resource managers would just look at you with a blank face if you said you graduated from the non HYP Ivies. Unless it is Harvard, Princeton or Yale then it really means nothing to them. </p>
<p>There are some state flagship universities with fabulous honors programs (need a 33/34 ACT to get in) and any child who can gain entrance into these programs will obtain a wonderful education among equally talented peers. Sometimes the price is equal or less, but if not then there is zero reason to put yourself $250,000 in debt for your child’s education. A previous poster referred to this as being “unwilling”, but I say it is being fiscally responsible. </p>
<p>(There are quite a few kids on the CC forum who are very proud of the honor’s program they will be attending - we need to be sensitive and choose our words carefully)</p>