The fact of the matter is that for true high achievers, where you go to undergraduate flat out doesn't matter. vadtoy did her undergrad at Kansas (because she's from there and wanted 4 years in Allen Field House - seriously), she's now a leading nuclear expert on former Soviet states and works at the IAEA. My best friend went to Western Carolina and ECU, he's now a teaching doc and can pretty much write whatever salary he wants. Another of my good childhood friends went to App State, he's now managing a bunch of Ivy League kids at Goldman. And on, and on.
If you are going to spend a bunch of money on college, spend it on graduate school. Hell, do community college for 2 years, transfer to a state school for the last 2 and then spend big money on grad school. That's where you make serious connections, and where the curriculum subjects are advanced enough to really make a difference. The fact of the matter is that the material you study at the undergraduate level just isn't very difficult no matter where you go. Basic statistics, business principles, chemistry, english, world history and the like are pretty much completely codified by now.