Ambition: If Your Kid Has Fire In Belly, Forget Ivy Leagues?

Can that old-fashioned quality ambition or fire in the belly make an Ivy League education a waste of money?

At $200,000 a pop for the Ivy League educational experience, more experts, parents, Generation Y'ers, and even graduates are questioning the return on investment. And, after all, Time Man of the Year Mark Zuckerberg didn't hang around Harvard to pick up his sheepskin. On Sunday, The New York Times reported that researchers have no definitive answer about the the value of an Ivy League education. The closest they could come to saying was: It all depends.