Can a $200,000 college choice be an impulse purchase?

Yes. Buying decisions are to one degree or another emotional. All of them. This assertion deeply offends marketers who trust rationality, logic, evidence and ten-reasons-why facts. Because the evidence is stacked the other way. Customers buy from (vote for, believe in, trust) people they like, and by extension, brands they like. Consider that college choice, by reputation a considered purchase …