Losing Savings for Hopkins Means Top Schools Get Yield in Slump - Janet Frankston Lorin, Bloomberg

Jill and George Edwards say they’ll eat into savings intended for retirement to send their son Mark to Johns Hopkins University, and they won’t cut costs by sending him to a top school in their home state. Parents are digging deeper to pay for colleges they deem best for their children’s future careers, said Chris Munoz, vice president for enrollment at Rice.