@JucoDad posted:I'd consider myself mildly successful and managed that with a 10th grade education (did get a GED a couple of years ago at 57 years old so I could take software development courses at UT Austin),
That's because school/college doesn't make you intelligent. I'd argue the more important mental capacity you need to excel at academia is memory. I grew up with a guy who had an IQ over 200, not much over as I remember, but how much over does it need to be when you're talking 200. Anyway, he was a decent dude. Did some really dumb shit at times.
Sending your kid to an Ivy league school means he has instructors that have absolutely zero real world experience. They've spent their whole life in school. Life is a theory to them. And apparently most of them hate this country and what it stands for, so I vote 4.
Oh, and this. My neighbor owns a plumbing business. He's putting in a shower for me. He told me he is paying his crew 200k+ a year and still has a problem finding help.