Let’s be honest. I have friends that are spending $20,000 on college. And not just this semester. For the entire four years. They go to a very well regarded, respectable state school. And they pay in-state tuition. Don’t even get me started on the people I know who go to Oxford, which, the last time I checked, was ranked the No. 1 school in the world. For the entire four years, those students will pay the equivalent of approximately two years of tuition at Columbia (depending on exchange rates).