[ColoradoTree]

Ouch!
Thanks for compiling the info.  It looks like tuition has roughly doubled every 15 years over the last 30 years.  Add to that the tuition that I'm paying for a local private high school and the cash flow keeps flowing (out)!  I've told my kids that they are on their own for grad school!

Nothing wrong with that, and while my kids are just 4 and 1, I expect we'll do the same thing my parents did with me (which was that they paid for college as long as I was working part time** to have a little skin in the game, and I was on my own for law school).  I would think that the need to pay for one's own graduate education tends to focus the mind on what one really wants to do.  At least, it did for me. 

The public schools in our area of Denver are pretty good, so I don't feel the need to go the private school route.  Not opposed to it (I went to Catholic high school myself, though that's certainly a different financial animal than some of the elite private schools), but if my kids can get an equally good HS education without me paying $20K or more per kid per year for it, I have a strong preference to save that money.  ;)

**It didn't matter what I did, as long as I was getting paid for it, so I tried to do as many paying research assistant gigs as I could, which was really the best of both worlds. 

[ColoradoTree]

Ouch!
Thanks for compiling the info.  It looks like tuition has roughly doubled every 15 years over the last 30 years.  Add to that the tuition that I'm paying for a local private high school and the cash flow keeps flowing (out)!  I've told my kids that they are on their own for grad school!

Nothing wrong with that, and while my kids are just 4 and 1, I expect we'll do the same thing my parents did with me (which was that they paid for college as long as I was working part time** to have a little skin in the game, and I was on my own for law school).  I would think that the need to pay for one's own graduate education tends to focus the mind on what one really wants to do.  At least, it did for me. 

The public schools in our area of Denver are pretty good, so I don't feel the need to go the private school route.  Not opposed to it (I went to Catholic high school myself, though that's certainly a different financial animal than some of the elite private schools), but if my kids can get an equally good HS education without me paying $20K or more per kid per year for it, I have a strong preference to save that money.  ;)

**It didn't matter what I did, as long as I was getting paid for it, so I tried to do as many paying research assistant gigs as I could, which was really the best of both worlds.