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

[austinmshauri]

Well there’s the argument that does it make sense to send the superstar to a superstar college because the return on investment is going to be better, whereas the average kid would just dig himself into a huge and expensive hole at a private LAC?

Why would an average kid “dig himself into a hole” at a private college? I would think a small, private college with small classes would benefit him more than it would his siblings. Superstar kids will do well anywhere.