Parents encouraging kids that they will pay if they get into good college

Both the kid who went to Cornell and the one who went to Tufts did extremely well post graduation. The SUNY grad took longer to figure out what he wanted to do but is quite happy now in his chosen profession.

The Cornell grad got a great job offer before he graduated after turning down a job offer from Goldman - where he had interned the summer before. The Tufts grad went into the graduate program at Sloan Kettering.