<p>Right now, I am a junior in high school and plan to apply to MIT and to UW Madison next year. I also plan on going to graduate school, ideally at MIT. </p>
<p>How can someone justify spending 55,000 a dollars a year to go to MIT for an undergraduate education when they plan on going to graduate school? Particularly, when where you go to graduate school is far more important than where you did your undergraduate work and when you can go to another good school almost for free.</p>
<p>I guess I would like to know what specifically sets the elite level schools apart from other very good schools.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>