In the northeast there’s a snobbery about attending private colleges. I’ve never understood the benefit of paying 60K to attend a no reputation private versus a campus of the state university system. One person’s reaction to my telling them my son was at a Big Ten was to ask if he took high school grades seriously.
These insignificant privates have been struggling, merging or going under as tuition rises. I have to figure COVID will have a devastating effect on these privates over the next couple of years.