<p>1.) The guarantee is valuable. I am not arguing this.</p>
<p>2.) A premiere education, however, is valuable in and of itself. Being surrounded by an entire campus (well, half a campus) worth of America’s most talented students is a very special experience.</p>
<p>3.) Ivy admission percentages generally do not fall below 70% and are usually in the 80s. Some schools (Princeton, Harvard) can generally push 90%.</p>
<p>4.) Ivy League tuitions generally are not $50,000 a year.</p>
<p>5.) Candidates from an Ivy League school who cannot get “a single interview” are almost certainly those who botched the admissions process itself, not the path leading up to it. </p>
<p>6.) The candidate who can get into a BS/MD combined program is almost certainly not going to be in the 20% (approximately) of Ivy League students who cannot get a single admission, because they’re strong enough candidates in the first place.</p>