Makes a big difference in cost and quality of education between sending a kid to UH Manoa vs Harvard, Yale or Princeton.   Of course if your kids is accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, CalTech, etc., you do whatever it takes financially so that they can attend and graduate as a degree from these colleges automatically will put your kid in the front of the line in job and other life opportunities.  SA might even do a story about how much parents in Hawaii need to make to afford to send their kids to private schools Punahou or Iolani.