Did you ever restrict your teen from applying to certain colleges? Did you have rules or boundaries?

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Anonymous wrote:Of course. I don’t have an unending supply of money. Most people don’t either. Everything depended on the FA package.

The question is about applying not actually going.

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Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

What are you raising idiots ?

No red states period unless you are too stupid to understand the changing laws.

Sending a daughter to old miss is absolutely insane

South Carolina for daughters omg wth is wrong with you as a parent?.

No your kid who got pregnant will not be crossing state lines

You can actually buy Plan B before they go to college and send it with them and condoms.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

What are you raising idiots ?

No red states period unless you are too stupid to understand the changing laws.

Sending a daughter to old miss is absolutely insane

South Carolina for daughters omg wth is wrong with you as a parent?.

No your kid who got pregnant will not be crossing state lines

It’s Ole Miss not Old Miss

Ole… the term from the antebellum South, where enslaved people used it as a title of respect for the mistress of a plantation to distinguish her from the "young misses"

They might want to change it to
old. 😂

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Anonymous wrote:Of course. I don’t have an unending supply of money. Most people don’t either. Everything depended on the FA package.

The question is about applying not actually going.

The answer is the same. Why apply somewhere I wouldn’t let him go? You’re setting yourself for a fight and/or disappointment and resentment if you let your kid apply places you wouldn’t let them attend.

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For kid applying next year, we explained that we can’t afford OOS publics that charge high tuition and generally don’t provide financial aid to OOS students. So Michigan and UC Berkeley, which otherwise may have been great fits, are off the table. We’re in Virginia, so in-state schools are good. And there are other OOS publics that charge more reasonable tuition that are on the list. For privates, we’ve run NPC for schools kid is interested in; we have an absolute cap that falls somewhere between in-state tuition and list price for privates above which we can’t pay (and have explained that to kid), and for privates that are within range (in other words, more than in-state but less than our cap), we’ve explained that we will have to see what the financial aid package actually is and whether the extra cost is worthwhile. So kid is aware of money and financial constraints and is read-in on how costs will be part of the decision making process, but nothing is ruled out unless we simply can’t do it. Also hunting for some merit aid.

Otherwise, providing suggestions to kid and working with kid to develop list—there are some schools that we liked that kid doesn’t (and that’s fine). The decision will ultimately be up to kid, subject to financial constraints above. Kid is very objective, mature, and logical, so that helps!

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We’re not rich, but have enough in assets probably not to qualify for need based aid. no restrictions on where she can apply, but we’ve steered her towards elite options.

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Anonymous wrote:We visited multiple schools where the tour guides opened with their pronouns and/or a "stolen land acknowledgement." While we didn't outright nix those schools, we strongly discouraged them. Thankfully, DC felt the same way about spending four years in an environment dominated by insufferable woke SJWs as we did, and chose accordingly.

P.S. I know, I know: "Hope your DC enjoys Liberty." You're not funny or original.

It is interesting that UVA tour guides used to do state their pronouns and do a land acknowledgement (toured in 2019/2020 pre-pandemic). They also spent a lot of the tour on the enslaved people that built UVA. It felt like 1/3 of the tour was about Jefferson’s moral failings rather than the education at UVA. Fast forward to 2025/2026 and the pronouns and land acknowledgement is gone. They pointed out the memorial to enslaved workers and that was it. Maybe this is in response to the DOJ probe?

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In state and public only for undergrad. For grad school, the world is your oyster. I don't understand parents who let their kids apply to out of state publics and then balk at the cost. You set yourself up for this by not creating parameters and boundaries up front, so don't complain about the bill. I don't understand parents who pay for an out of state flagship when the kid could have attended the in-state flagship for a fraction of the cost, even with merit aid. Let's see...we could pay $14-17k in state, or $33-36k out of state. Let's go more expensive! Dummies.

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^ or with in-state merit aid applied, we could pay $7,000/year in tuition, but we'll go with the $36,000 out of state public instead. WTF.

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Anonymous wrote:I am from New York. My dad refused to let us apply for schools west of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon.

Did he consider himself the epitome of open mindedness?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course. I don’t have an unending supply of money. Most people don’t either. Everything depended on the FA package.

The question is about applying not actually going.

The answer is the same. Why apply somewhere I wouldn’t let him go? You’re setting yourself for a fight and/or disappointment and resentment if you let your kid apply places you wouldn’t let them attend.

Because you don’t know how much money they will get.

I mean, they have a budget so if they don’t earn financial aid or the merit aid then yeah it’s on them. It’s not on me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am from New York. My dad refused to let us apply for schools west of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon.

Did he consider himself the epitome of open mindedness?

You never wanna be so open-minded that your brain falls out.

Are you open to slavery?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Max budget is $65k so they are price/merit sensitive.

There is a small subset of schools that are not values aligned with our family and I am not willing to give those schools my money. Specifically we won’t pay for schools that teach Christian nationalism.

What schools are you referring to?

There are a LOT of small Christian colleges out there that definitely lean this way. Many of them are NCAA D2 or NAIA so they recruit student athletes who really want to continue their sport at in college but aren't at the D1 level or able to pay for selective D3 schools.

I don't see why anyone would prohibit Notre Dame but Ave Maria, where the tour guide bragged that JD Vance spoke at orientation, no way.

Democrats know their views are stupid & fragile, so they can’t risk their kids hearing opposing views.

If they were confident of their views, they would welcome hearing the opposition because they would know the conservative views would be silly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

What are you raising idiots ?

No red states period unless you are too stupid to understand the changing laws.

Sending a daughter to old miss is absolutely insane

South Carolina for daughters omg wth is wrong with you as a parent?.

No your kid who got pregnant will not be crossing state lines

You can actually buy Plan B before they go to college and send it with them and condoms.

And risk a friend ratting on them?…


Fully pro choice however no that won’t be enough you are a fool to think you are getting plan B after midterms not to mention kids talk

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am from New York. My dad refused to let us apply for schools west of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon.

Did he consider himself the epitome of open mindedness?

You never wanna be so open-minded that your brain falls out.

Are you open to slavery?

No, not a fan of slavery. It was mostly Democrats who loved slavery enough to die for it.