Originally Posted by Botnst

Apologies for getting back to this thread so late.

If I were you I would take a careful read on your kid and consider whether she is grad school material. If she is not, send her to the Ivy's. She'll get the key to the door and it will be up to her to perform once she's in. But that key is huge.

If she is likely bound for grad school (or med school, given your family history) then try to get her into Ann Arbor. It's one of the best public U's in the USA and if she doesn't drown in the morass, she will do well in grad school.

Once grad school bound, then shoot for the Ivy's. Their graduate mentorship is much better than most public U's and are a near guarantee of a tenure track after PhD at a modest school or a high quality post doc which accelerates the successful post doc into the big leagues. The neat thing about grad school is that the students are highly subsidized!

The attenuation up the educational food chain is nowhere near linear. The higher she reaches, the difficulty doubles-down.