I think it would be more worth it so you could go drinking and hang out with the right people.
Come job finding time its nice to have your friends dad on the board for the company that you want to work for.
Back in HS my history teachers daughter graduated from Yale with a degree in ancient peoples or something like that. After not being able to get a job for a year she decided that making money was a good thing, so she went back and got a finance degree; now she has a Porsche...