How to encourage DD to consider international schools

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

What is wrong with you? OP literally asked people to share experiences about how to encourage their DD to consider international schools. That's what people are doing.

What is wrong with you? Have you attended an international university thousands of miles away from home? I have! I shared my personal experience. It takes a special kind of idiot to think that it's OK to push your child into this, knowing they don't want to do it just to save a buck. It's not something a loving parent does.

Feel free to offer your bank account to pay for American universities for these poor "abused" high school students. There's nothing wrong with sending kids overseas to college and to encourage them to think more broadly beyond borders to consider good options at cheaper schools that aren't immediately obvious to a 17 year old. My friend's kid has been having a great time studying at LSE. Yes, it's a different time zone, but it's the same distance by plane as sending your kid from the DMV to California. And it's less than half the price of NYU, the school she turned down to attend LSE.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

You said "you have no idea what you're talking about" when someone shared an experience different to your own. That might be indicative that something IS wrong with your brain.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

You said "you have no idea what you're talking about" when someone shared an experience different to your own. That might be indicative that something IS wrong with your brain.

+1 If you think saying "you have no idea what you're talking about" isn't offensive, you are need to recalibrate your social skills.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

What is wrong with you? OP literally asked people to share experiences about how to encourage their DD to consider international schools. That's what people are doing.

What is wrong with you? Have you attended an international university thousands of miles away from home? I have! I shared my personal experience. It takes a special kind of idiot to think that it's OK to push your child into this, knowing they don't want to do it just to save a buck. It's not something a loving parent does.

Feel free to offer your bank account to pay for American universities for these poor "abused" high school students. There's nothing wrong with sending kids overseas to college and to encourage them to think more broadly beyond borders to consider good options at cheaper schools that aren't immediately obvious to a 17 year old. My friend's kid has been having a great time studying at LSE. Yes, it's a different time zone, but it's the same distance by plane as sending your kid from the DMV to California. And it's less than half the price of NYU, the school she turned down to attend LSE.

Why are so many of you incapable of reading? I never said there was anything wrong with studying abroad. I did it. I would NOT send my child who is not on board in a million years because it was one of the hardest things I have ever done.

Also, CA and Europe is so vastly different that I don't have the patience to bother responding to your stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

You said "you have no idea what you're talking about" when someone shared an experience different to your own. That might be indicative that something IS wrong with your brain.

You don't have any idea because you haven't done it. Your insistence that you do know is VERY indicative that you're just plain dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

You said "you have no idea what you're talking about" when someone shared an experience different to your own. That might be indicative that something IS wrong with your brain.

+1 If you think saying "you have no idea what you're talking about" isn't offensive, you are need to recalibrate your social skills.

How would someone who has not had any experience living and studying in a different country know? Please do tell me. A friend's kid experience is not sufficient. It takes a special kind of arrogance to think that you know better than someone who has lived it.

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Are you looking to have her experience study abroad for like a semester or two, or actually be abroad for 3-4 years? Those are very different experiences. Also keep in mind the 'cheaper' European schools are usually cheaper for residents, not foreigners. Plus they want some IBs and your child pretty much needs to know exactly what they want to study, since they will be expected to graduate in 3 years. Plus they largely live in urban environments. There is more to say on this, but please do consider that just 'studying abroad' is not as simple as it may seem. Exposure to different cultures is a great idea, but maybe as a side to a US college experience our kids grew up thinking they would experience, versus a total 180 to live abroad. You definitely don't want to put your thumb on the scale in case it goes south, don't want her blaming you for pushing her to do one thing or another.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

What is wrong with you? OP literally asked people to share experiences about how to encourage their DD to consider international schools. That's what people are doing.

What is wrong with you? Have you attended an international university thousands of miles away from home? I have! I shared my personal experience. It takes a special kind of idiot to think that it's OK to push your child into this, knowing they don't want to do it just to save a buck. It's not something a loving parent does.

Feel free to offer your bank account to pay for American universities for these poor "abused" high school students. There's nothing wrong with sending kids overseas to college and to encourage them to think more broadly beyond borders to consider good options at cheaper schools that aren't immediately obvious to a 17 year old. My friend's kid has been having a great time studying at LSE. Yes, it's a different time zone, but it's the same distance by plane as sending your kid from the DMV to California. And it's less than half the price of NYU, the school she turned down to attend LSE.

Not half : Econ degree at LSE is 34k pounds — that’s 46,000 U.S. NYU is 69k tuition. But, of course, plenty of schools that are NYU caliber in the U.S. that offer merit aid. NYU would not be the choice of penny pinchers in the first place, so it is hard to argue the UK was necesssary for “cost” reasons. Your friend is being disingenuous.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

You said "you have no idea what you're talking about" when someone shared an experience different to your own. That might be indicative that something IS wrong with your brain.

You don't have any idea because you haven't done it. Your insistence that you do know is VERY indicative that you're just plain dumb.

Where did we all go to college? What country? Do let us know, as you seem to have very "special" powers of deduction. Also, there are multiple people posting on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

What is wrong with you? OP literally asked people to share experiences about how to encourage their DD to consider international schools. That's what people are doing.

What is wrong with you? Have you attended an international university thousands of miles away from home? I have! I shared my personal experience. It takes a special kind of idiot to think that it's OK to push your child into this, knowing they don't want to do it just to save a buck. It's not something a loving parent does.

Feel free to offer your bank account to pay for American universities for these poor "abused" high school students. There's nothing wrong with sending kids overseas to college and to encourage them to think more broadly beyond borders to consider good options at cheaper schools that aren't immediately obvious to a 17 year old. My friend's kid has been having a great time studying at LSE. Yes, it's a different time zone, but it's the same distance by plane as sending your kid from the DMV to California. And it's less than half the price of NYU, the school she turned down to attend LSE.

Not half : Econ degree at LSE is 34k pounds — that’s 46,000 U.S. NYU is 69k tuition. But, of course, plenty of schools that are NYU caliber in the U.S. that offer merit aid. NYU would not be the choice of penny pinchers in the first place, so it is hard to argue the UK was necesssary for “cost” reasons. Your friend is being disingenuous.

You must be awfully rich if you think a savings of 24K per year isn't meaningful. Also, LSE is typically a 3 year undergrad degree (can be extended to 4 in some cases, but for most it's three). That's (24*3)+80 that would have been paid for a 4th year at NYU that the parents are saving by sending their kid to LSE. That's a 150K savings for LSE vs. NYU.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids. I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there. Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was.

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal? Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada. If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience.

I'm sorry your brain thinks it knows who is posting on DCUM and what their educational background is. You don't get to censor people sharing experiences that are different from your own, and I'm sorry for you that you can't see beyond your own narrow experience.

And you don't get to censor me when I share my personal experience. Learn how to read as well. You're ignorant on so many levels.

No one is censoring you. They're just sharing experiences that are different from yours and you attack them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Sorry your international education was of such poor quality that it didn't teach you to read properly or to understand others.

YOU ATTACKED ME! I simply shared my experience and said nothing offensive to OP. You chose to berate me about the "fault with my brain." Go away, dumb troll.

You said "you have no idea what you're talking about" when someone shared an experience different to your own. That might be indicative that something IS wrong with your brain.

You don't have any idea because you haven't done it. Your insistence that you do know is VERY indicative that you're just plain dumb.

Where did we all go to college? What country? Do let us know, as you seem to have very "special" powers of deduction. Also, there are multiple people posting on this thread.

I shared my experience of how difficult it was for a 17 year old to be in a completely different country/culture/language thousands of miles away from family. If that's inconceivable to you, I really don't want to keep responding. I came here to the US to go to college. I offered a perspective and it's a valid one. Not sure why you are hell bent on dismissing my experience.

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This is crazy, and I say that as someone with two kids raised here who both chose to go to college abroad, and are both glad that they did.

My kids were raised spending a lot of time in my country, so it wasn’t unfamiliar to them. They were both strong and independent, and it was their choice.

Going to live abroad at 18 is a huge decision, one that isn’t right for most kids. I would never encourage my kids to do this, it has to come from them, and you have to be sure that they have the character to manage it successfully.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not push something like this. It's the kind of thing you have to want and to be really interested in in order to thrive. College is enough of a transition I can't imagine pushing a student who is adamant against it to also have to adapt to a foreign country.

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if she's not comfortable don't push it, she can always study abroad

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Anonymous wrote:I would refrain from PUSHING your kid towards an international school.

I would open their minds and view by exposing them to the idea when they are HS Freshman or Sophomores….but let them decide.

We travelled a lot. One summer (between Fresh and Soph HS yr) we were in Italy and when in Milan we accidentally passed in front of these amazing buidling that happened to be Bocconi. My son asked what that was and when we told him it was an amazing business school his brain started working….we came back to Europe between Soph and Junior year to specifically tour EU and UK schools since he was enamored but not sold on the idea.

HE spent a month abroad between his Jr and Sr at a U program in Italy and this gave him the confidence to apply in his Sr year. We didnt force anything, only opened his eyes.

Some kids will want to explore the idea, others like my daughter will straight up say, no, not for me.

Agree 100%. Don’t force it. Simply expose them to it and let them decide. Some kids will have an interest and others wont. On avg it will be much cheaper than a US college when you consider 3 vs 4 years. Unless you are in Scotland or Ireland, then it is also 4 years and while cheaper, it is not that much cheaper.

At our house the decision was, if IVY or t20, stay in the US. If Best option was T-20 - T-40 type schools then it would be a pros/cons decision, but again, we let our kid decide. He got in USC and NYU and decided to go abroad.