#3 academy's (free education, officer status)
I went to the Naval Academy. When you walk through the door, you basically gave up every God given right you have. We had a saying that it was (at the time) a $200k education shoved up your azz a nickel at a time. It was far from free. It was paid for through blood sweat, tears, serving on 4 ships, doing 3 deployments etc. I get your point though.