Talk me off a ledge

[Anonymous]

East Stroudsburg? What is that?

[Anonymous]

Let her go. She can transfer later if she is unhappy. Have you visited and spent time on campus and in the surrounding area. Regional is not always bad and maybe she does well and has her pick of grad schools, which is where you use the extra funds. Encourage her to do semester abroad programs and seek out professors for internships.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC has a full tuition scholarship (academic) to East Stroudsburg (applied there for reasons not relevant but also cast a wide net and all that).

Got into FAR more rigorous colleges (think, Villanova, Colgate, Lehigh) but they gave ZERO aid. And we'd be looking at $200-300K for undergraduate studies. The "in between" ones are not appealing to DC for various reasons.

Would be a pre-health path of some type.

DC is thinking of taking the full tuition scholarship. And I'm absolutely freaking out about it. I cannot find anything about their pre-health outcomes on their website. (I left these decisions re: applications mostly to her and never thought this would be what it came down to). While I'm sure there are many successful outcomes for that school, I'm feeling very anxious over the entire thing. DC worked very hard in HS and I just feel like why?

I acknowledge the snobbery in my post (i went to a similar type of school and wanted better for DC). But, I'm also legit worried about grad school and job placement outside of the small area of PA (it's more a regional school). Please give me some perspective.

Seriously? The kid got a FULL RIDE scholarship and you're scratching your head trying to figure out what the point of all that effort was? What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC has a full tuition scholarship (academic) to East Stroudsburg (applied there for reasons not relevant but also cast a wide net and all that).

Got into FAR more rigorous colleges (think, Villanova, Colgate, Lehigh) but they gave ZERO aid. And we'd be looking at $200-300K for undergraduate studies. The "in between" ones are not appealing to DC for various reasons.

Would be a pre-health path of some type.

DC is thinking of taking the full tuition scholarship. And I'm absolutely freaking out about it. I cannot find anything about their pre-health outcomes on their website. (I left these decisions re: applications mostly to her and never thought this would be what it came down to). While I'm sure there are many successful outcomes for that school, I'm feeling very anxious over the entire thing. DC worked very hard in HS and I just feel like why?

I acknowledge the snobbery in my post (i went to a similar type of school and wanted better for DC). But, I'm also legit worried about grad school and job placement outside of the small area of PA (it's more a regional school). Please give me some perspective.

Seriously? The kid got a FULL RIDE scholarship and you're scratching your head trying to figure out what the point of all that effort was? What is wrong with you?

Read this thread and the college boards generally and ask me that question again?
You know EXACTLY my concern so stop being obtuse about it.

[Anonymous]

Coach Franklin did ok.

What is your budget OP?

[Anonymous]

What's the budget, what are her stats, and what were the other options? We're here to talk you off the ledge, but by looking for a middle ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC has a full tuition scholarship (academic) to East Stroudsburg (applied there for reasons not relevant but also cast a wide net and all that).

Got into FAR more rigorous colleges (think, Villanova, Colgate, Lehigh) but they gave ZERO aid. And we'd be looking at $200-300K for undergraduate studies. The "in between" ones are not appealing to DC for various reasons.

Would be a pre-health path of some type.

DC is thinking of taking the full tuition scholarship. And I'm absolutely freaking out about it. I cannot find anything about their pre-health outcomes on their website. (I left these decisions re: applications mostly to her and never thought this would be what it came down to). While I'm sure there are many successful outcomes for that school, I'm feeling very anxious over the entire thing. DC worked very hard in HS and I just feel like why?

I acknowledge the snobbery in my post (i went to a similar type of school and wanted better for DC). But, I'm also legit worried about grad school and job placement outside of the small area of PA (it's more a regional school). Please give me some perspective.

Seriously? The kid got a FULL RIDE scholarship and you're scratching your head trying to figure out what the point of all that effort was? What is wrong with you?

Read this thread and the college boards generally and ask me that question again?
You know EXACTLY my concern so stop being obtuse about it.

I understand your concerns, although I think you're freaking out over nothing, but it's absolutely insane that you're questioning the point of your child's effort when they got a full ride merit scholarship instead of being wildly proud of them and wildly excited that they have an opportunity to avoid student debt and/or save hundreds of thousands of dollars for graduate school or real estate.

[Anonymous]

How many of you urging OP’s DD to go to ESU would send your own kid there, turning down Lehigh?
My concern would be that your DD may not be able transfer, coming from ESU, regardless of her grades.

[Anonymous]

Pre-health as in nursing, PA, medical school, dental school, etc?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you urging OP’s DD to go to ESU would send your own kid there, turning down Lehigh?
My concern would be that your DD may not be able transfer, coming from ESU, regardless of her grades.

[crickets]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you urging OP’s DD to go to ESU would send your own kid there, turning down Lehigh?
My concern would be that your DD may not be able transfer, coming from ESU, regardless of her grades.

I had my kid turn down Lehigh for a lesser school. Not East Stroudsberg but not too far off. Kid graduated with a $110k finance job. It’s not the school, it’s the kid. A smart, humble, hardworking kid will go far. That combination is in short supply today.

[Anonymous]

How have you heard from Villanova, Colgate, and Lehigh already? You haven’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pre-health as in nursing, PA, medical school, dental school, etc?

OP:

Not nursing but yes.
Budget in 529 is around $180K but we could bankroll a bit more than that w/o loans. The other schools would require at least some loans (and those are $80K or so per year schools).

The mids are ones that, after we visited, were too fratty/greek/preppy or just "wasn't feeling it" types of responses. These were the schools like Dickinson, W&J, Denison.

Zero interest, also, in the big state schools like Tech, MD, UVA, etc. Maybe for grad school but not interested for undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you urging OP’s DD to go to ESU would send your own kid there, turning down Lehigh?
My concern would be that your DD may not be able transfer, coming from ESU, regardless of her grades.

If the kid wanted to do finance, then Lehigh would be a no-brainer. I'm not so sure that it's better than ESU for "pre-health", whatever that is.

But as we live in Virginia, ESU is not of interest anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How have you heard from Villanova, Colgate, and Lehigh already? You haven’t.

I don't know why you feel the need to sleuth it out but, for specific reasons, yes, we have. And, no, I'll not be adding any more context as it's not relevant to the question. Sorry.