>>>Actually, for most that is true. It really depends on the career choice. With grants and student loans it is possible. My co-worker's sons both went to Harvard on student loans. The benefit Ivy league students get is when they graduate - family connections and the degree can get your foot in the door of some companies - especially when the competition is tough.
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>>And at a lot of the top schools now (I'm pretty sure Harvard's one of them), loans have been replaced with grants, so that the kids come out debt-free.
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>That interesting.
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>Here students are now coming out of university with debts in the ten of thousands.

OK, I was totally ignorant of that. I was under the false understanding that university was free to everyone in England.