<p>A friend of mine 's son is heading off to BU. Mid 60s, and probably more as he is the first kid to go to college and they are all gung ho. THe campus gift shop and Boston in general are just waiting for them to go drop the kid off and for Parent’s weekend. My guess is that they’ll drop over $70K in costs up there. </p>
<p>He was accepted to Binghamton and put his nose up to it. What to say? My oldest did the same danged thing and I’m still paying for it with the loans we took out.</p>