Ivy League is overrated, trust me here. I got a MUCH better value in my state university for graduate school than I did spending $40k (had numerous merit schola

Ivy League is overrated, trust me here. I got a MUCH better value in my state university for graduate school than I did spending $40k (had numerous merit scholarships) per year on an elite education which is highly impersonal and un-tailored. Those schools are businesses and you can provide one of their products(learning CS) to yourself. Good on you, don't worry about not going to those very overpriced schools, which are increasingly the playground of the rich and the narrow few who get there based on merit. I knew many, many kids who got there on sports rides or on daddy's donations and when it came time to make comments in class, they were silent or contributed the banal minimum.