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I’m not sure what other Duke posters are on this site but I respect state schools like Michigan and Texas a great deal. They are underrated by the public and society in general and that must be taken into account when one makes a college matriculation decision but the opportunities are clearly there to be very successful.</p>
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It is if you want to work in New York, not so if you want to stay in Texas. I felt like the other schools like Brown and Duke that I was considering had a lot more national and international portability. My parents could afford it without too much pain as well.</p>
<p>Heck, I know an international from India that picked Michigan over half the Ivies and Stanford when the latter were cheaper just because he liked Ann Arbor and the school spirit so much. Then again, I know another classmate who’s paying 200k more to go to Columbia for Engineering over Michigan in-state just because its an Ivy.</p>
<p>To each his own I guess. We’re lucky to have so many amazing schools in this country.</p>