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College Selection and Affordability
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What is the salary payoff for graduates of top colleges?
While starting salaries will never be the only criteria in creating a college list, attending college is now so expensive that few can afford to ignore their future earnings potential as a serious factor to be considered.
More than two million applications were submitted to these 61 selective colleges through…