Filthy Rich Offer Best Bargains

The Princeton Review recently released their list of America's best value colleges.  To figure out the rankings, they looked at 30 different factors in 3 areas: academics, costs, and financial aid.  How they figured it all out isn't that important.  What is important is the list that they compiled.  Here are the top 10 private college values:

1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) 2. Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) 3. Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.) 4. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 5. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 6. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) 7. Rice University (Houston, Texas) 8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) 9. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) 10. Wellesley College (Wellesley, Mass.) Harvard?  Princeton?  Yale?  MIT?  At first this list astounded me.  I thought these places cost as much as 16 Hummers filled with platinum chains.  But I guess it all makes sense--these schools have more money than most small countries.  They give out full ride scholarships like condoms at a porn convention. Seriously, they're all crazy rich.  I've heard that Harvard's swim team trains in a pool filled with 100 dollar bills.  And that Princeton has Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon champagne in all the dining halls at all times, mainly for food fights and champagne showers.  And that Yale actually bought all of the blow in South America to stop their students from doing so much of it.  And that every graduate of MIT is awarded with a degree, a mink coat, and a Bentley with 22 inch chrome rims. I really should have paid attention and not slept through high school.  Maybe I'd be writing this from a Bentley while wearing a mink coat.  Oh well. 50 Cent.  MIT Class of '95