<p>Sevmom, I’m not sure the CMU link to Google is an outlier. There were many kids in DS’s graduating class who started with a 6 figure salary. We will never know how he would have done had be gone to Penn State, but our experience has been that CMU students interned around the country to a much greater extent than the flagship students I was familiar with. I’m sure there’re articles like this that show many schools in a positive light, but what I can say was that our personal experience was way better than stated:
[The</a> 10 Best Colleges For Your Bank Account - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/15/the-10-best-colleges-for-your-bank-account/]The”>The 10 Best Colleges For Your Bank Account)</p>
<p>As to the question of the thread, it really is very much depends on the family’s priorities and finances - we are fortunate enough to have money to afford some luxuries and choose to drive Hyundais and Tauruses instead of Beamers, but feel the full-pay money spent here was worth it. We’re less pleased with the outcome of D1’s private results, but we still think she had a better experience than D2 in a state school mainly because the students came from a much wider geographic area.</p>