<p>OP,
you should read this article in todays NYT’s.Its all about the decision your family is trying
the following paragraph is one you should pay special attention to:</p>
<p>“In two much-discussed studies about the value of a degree from an elite college — one with people who graduated in the 1970s and the other with more recent graduates - equally smart students had about the same earnings whether or not they went to top-tier colleges. The big difference, their studies found, came from minority and low-income students who went to top-tier colleges:They did better later on.”</p>
<p><a href=“Measuring College Prestige vs. Price - The New York Times”>Measuring College Prestige vs. Price - The New York Times;