Why is this the last thing I thought of...Who's paying for this (college)?

[Anonymous]

After you've gone through the admissions process with your own kid, please report back.

[Anonymous]

To reiterate: I don't really have an aversion to staying IS. I just wanted her to experience a different environment, city, etc. Probably because I went to school the non-traditional route (married, commuter student) and I have these fantasies about what it would have been like to "go away to school". My daughter is open to staying IS, and we're going to apply and explore our options.

I get where you are coming from, but if you can afford it, you can still pay for her to live on campus or in an apartment with roomates to get more of the traditional college experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

To reiterate: I don't really have an aversion to staying IS. I just wanted her to experience a different environment, city, etc. Probably because I went to school the non-traditional route (married, commuter student) and I have these fantasies about what it would have been like to "go away to school". My daughter is open to staying IS, and we're going to apply and explore our options.

I get where you are coming from, but if you can afford it, you can still pay for her to live on campus or in an apartment with roomates to get more of the traditional college experience.

This. We've got a ways to go before college age, and we are diligently saving, but unless the kids get some major scholarship, they are mostly likely going to a state school. My attitude is that even if they go to a close school (we are in VA, so George Mason, for example) we will treat it as an "away" experience. They'll live in the dorm, then later an apartment, we won't expect to see them every weekend, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After you've gone through the admissions process with your own kid, please report back.

Why do the parents have to go thru this? Is it not the kid that is applyinng?

[Anonymous]

23:38....the key word is KID...and most don't have the experience or common sense to decipher and digest all the information that is thrown out to them during this long and tedious process. Junior and Senior years in high school are incredibly stressful and trying to make a practical and prudent decision on college matters in the midst of all that distraction and without a fair amount of parental guidance would be torture (even if the kid doesn't agree). Not to mention that most kids will not be footing the bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After you've gone through the admissions process with your own kid, please report back.

Why do the parents have to go thru this? Is it not the kid that is applyinng?

Not the PP, but even though it is the child who is applying, they need a lot of parental help. There are deadlines for all of the different schools which have to be met, various test scores that need to be sent (and the child needs a parent's credit card to order those), essays to be written (which I definitely wanted to review), parental information which needs to be filled out on the application (do your children know what year you graduated with your various degrees?), not to mention a credit card necessary to pay the application fees (which really add up). I happen to have a DS who is very organized, but I still had to be involved in the process!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another MD resident here...I don't know of any white, average B students from my DS's school who have been admitted to College Park, either, so the PP is not the only one who wondered if there are different standards for minority students!

Apply to a top HBCU and watch how much easier it is for your white student to get accepted with a full ride than a black kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another MD resident here...I don't know of any white, average B students from my DS's school who have been admitted to College Park, either, so the PP is not the only one who wondered if there are different standards for minority students!

Happens often, particularly for white students in more rural parts of the state. MoCo/PG/Howard county residents are in abundance.