re: Would you fund your kid's IVY league education if you could?

I’d hope to have enough confidence in my parenting abilities to send him anywhere he wants to go regardless of ideological bent. I’d have failed as a parent if I didn’t equip him with the critical thinking and social skills to handle that environment.

The average career and lifetime income premium for an Ivy degree is huge (7 figures in real dollars, easily). A philosophy degree from Harvard is worth more than an engineering degree than all but a small handful of state schools, as one comparison.