The name on the diploma is over valued in most discussions. Outside of the NE and west coast and a few major population centers in between, it doesn’t much matter where you go to college. The college my degree is from doesn’t even exist any more and no one would have heard of it anyways, it went bankrupt about 10 years ago. I needed the 150 hours required to get my license, so i did it as cheaply as possible.
My oldest is starting this process now. She has been dead set on going to UNC for as long as she has talked about college and is finally just now starting to think about backup plans. It’s going to be rough on her if she doesn’t make it, but the acceptance rate for out of state females there is extremely low. We’ll see how it goes, but it’s probably time for her to work in some Plan B’s. I’m hoping for free state school for the 2nd kid assuming TikTok fame doesn’t work out for her.