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Anonymous
| Is it reasonable to strike a college off your kid’s list based on it being in a city you don’t want them to live in? Like a place you don’t want to visit or return to or don’t like the weather? |
Anonymous
| No, that is not reasonable. Affordability, educational quality are the metrics. You might have to spend a handful of days helping with move in and move out,but if you don't like the town... who cares? You aren't living there. SMH. |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
| Such an approach is very dismissive of what the actual student might like. It's the kid's college experience, not the parents. The parents presumably had their desired "college days" back in the Mesozoic Era. |
Anonymous
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No red states, including any cities within
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Anonymous
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Chicago and Baltimore
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Anonymous
| My own weather preferences should have no bearing on where my child applies since I won’t actually live there. |
Anonymous
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Before everyone makes this political, note that was NOT what the OP asked about. There have been plenty of post debating red state / blue state for college. That's not what OP said.
OP said: "Like a place you don’t want to visit or return to or don’t like the weather?" So I reiterate my PP. No, those are not reasonable factors to eliminate a college from consideration. |
Anonymous
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Nothing is off the table in the continental US.
As long as they like it, and it serves them well, I’m satisfied. |
Anonymous
| Transportation cost and access is a factor. And livibility and safety, which are affected by weather. But no, it's not reasonable to exclude a school because you personally don't want to visit. |
Anonymous
| LA, SF, and Miami were on my no-go list for kid's college process. |
Anonymous
| When I was applying to colleges in the 90s my cop dad wouldn’t let me apply to Yale bc he’d heard too many bad stories about New Haven. I ended up at another Ivy. |
Anonymous
I think if you have concerns about the safety of a school’s location or something like that, that’s legit grounds for at least a conversation and maybe ruling out a school, as long as you do it early enough (like before they apply, at least, but ideally early in the list-building process). But you shouldn’t tell your kid they can’t go to a school because *you* don’t like the weather or something like that. You don’t have to live there. I have no issue with *students* using preferred weather or how much they like the nearby town as part of their decision making for where they want to go, but the *parents* don’t need to disallow a school because it’s too hot or too cold. |
Anonymous
Why these specifically? |
Anonymous
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Nope! Diversity of thought is a good thing! I’d argue that only associating with like minded people makes us closed minded.
If OP is really not implicating politics, then I still put no limits on location as long as they have access to great medical care and safety measures are in place. I’m not going to my kid’s school for a vacation, I just want to see them. As long as they’re happy and getting a great education, the world is their oyster. |