Note on the on-going private schools in NYC. Just to extend the cost factor. Those top private schools are running 35K+ per year. So when you think about state schools for college because of cost, think about the option of spending 35-40K per year on K-12.

I also think that my bias on the name schools comes from 1) I am Canadian and I only know certain name schools and 2) working on Wall Street, the name schools are prominent.

Ren