> which in turn made it VERY difficult to get any advanced degree. Absolutely false for STEM fields. Except for Stanford/MIT your flagship public school is pro

> which in turn made it VERY difficult to get any advanced degree. Absolutely false for STEM fields. Except for Stanford/MIT your flagship public school is probably a better tech school than any other private name-brand school. Yale is an ordinary tech school, with several public schools (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSB, UWash, UIUC, UMich, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisc-Mad off the top of my head) being significantly better and cheaper. And all will allow you in from community colleges.