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<p>Sorry Pierre, but there have just been too many posts here on CC that cast a blind eye to the opportunity costs involved. That $72K could be used for her grad school, helping pay for her first home, helping to fund a new business or fund a retirement plan. UNC is a fine school, but they teach what every other b-school in the country teaches (and using many of the same textbooks). There is no secret sauce. The hope is that going to college X someone’s daughter might get a job, get a great job and that the alumni network provides more opportunities over time than college Y. What is that worth and how does one assess the reality of that worth given uncertainty? </p>
<p>Yet, still the most important thing is not where you go but what you do there. </p>
<p>I know this post is a bit ‘heavy-handed’ but as I just received a call from a newly minted Harvard M.B.A. grad with substantial work experience looking for some networking help to land a job, I would be remiss not to offer my perspective.</p>