Stay in state flagship or go to pretty well ranked OOS SLAC?

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Davidson. College is the time to shatter students' insular world. This is part of their education. Do it in the supportive environment that is Davidson.

If Davidson doesn't work out for whatever reason, the student can transfer to UT Austin. If she chooses UT Austin which is famous for its weed-out curriculum, she will be unable to transfer to Davidson.

This is similar to my thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the difference in cost between Macalester or the other places and UT, and would it all be made up of loans? Offhand I can’t see going 100k into debt for those schools over UT.

Exact COA:
UT Austin- 13K a year (no coverage for room and board- can receive federal loans)
Macalester- 3K a year federal loan, 5K student contribution from work study + summer savings
Davidson- No packaged loans, 2K work study
Bates- 2K a year federal loan, 4K work study + summer savings

Meanwhile, middle class kids go practically bankrupt to get through college.

Middle class parents, if they want to have generous need based financial aid for their college bound children, could choose lower paying jobs or be one earner family. If they have lot of assets that negate them from getting financial aid, then they can choose to donate some of their assets to charity. There is always a solution, instead of crying against benefits offered to very poor first-gen students. But then, if you are a Republican, especially of MAGA brand, you would rather cry over institutional help to poor and first-gen families, and thus you meet the minimum entry requirement for being a Republican and a MAGA red hatter.

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To be clear, I wrote Mexican food, not Tex-Mex food. Maybe you don't know the difference? And NC's Latino population is primarily from Mexico, not Central America. One of my closest family friends lives in NC and we have had to make trips to Charlotte to get cooking supplies we needed to make something when it was too late to have it shipped by our families in Texas.

"Among all North Carolina Hispanic or Latino residents, including those born in the United States, 56% identify Mexican as their primary ancestry; 12% identify as Puerto Rican; and another 21% are of a Central American background like Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan." https://www.ncdemography.org/2021/02/05/north-carolinas-hispanic-community-2020-snapshot/

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Anonymous wrote:To be clear, I wrote Mexican food, not Tex-Mex food. Maybe you don't know the difference? And NC's Latino population is primarily from Mexico, not Central America. One of my closest family friends lives in NC and we have had to make trips to Charlotte to get cooking supplies we needed to make something when it was too late to have it shipped by our families in Texas.

"Among all North Carolina Hispanic or Latino residents, including those born in the United States, 56% identify Mexican as their primary ancestry; 12% identify as Puerto Rican; and another 21% are of a Central American background like Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan." https://www.ncdemography.org/2021/02/05/north-carolinas-hispanic-community-2020-snapshot/

I do know the difference. Which is why a kid from Texas is not going to find the food they're missing in Charlotte. If the kid is from Beaumont, she's not going to be missing mole. (I still guessing the vast majority of the cheaper restaurants are owned by Salvadorans. It's a thing, although I can't really tell you why.)

This is a dumb conversation, anyway, as a low income kid on scholarship isn't going to be driving from Davidson to Charlotte on the regular to eat out at an "authentic Mexican" restaurant, anyway. If you ever were actually a poor kid in college, you've certainly forgotten what it's like.

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Anonymous wrote:To be clear, I wrote Mexican food, not Tex-Mex food. Maybe you don't know the difference? And NC's Latino population is primarily from Mexico, not Central America. One of my closest family friends lives in NC and we have had to make trips to Charlotte to get cooking supplies we needed to make something when it was too late to have it shipped by our families in Texas.

"Among all North Carolina Hispanic or Latino residents, including those born in the United States, 56% identify Mexican as their primary ancestry; 12% identify as Puerto Rican; and another 21% are of a Central American background like Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan." https://www.ncdemography.org/2021/02/05/north-carolinas-hispanic-community-2020-snapshot/

I do know the difference. Which is why a kid from Texas is not going to find the food they're missing in Charlotte. If the kid is from Beaumont, she's not going to be missing mole. (I still guessing the vast majority of the cheaper restaurants are owned by Salvadorans. It's a thing, although I can't really tell you why.)

This is a dumb conversation, anyway, as a low income kid on scholarship isn't going to be driving from Davidson to Charlotte on the regular to eat out at an "authentic Mexican" restaurant, anyway. If you ever were actually a poor kid in college, you've certainly forgotten what it's like.

Haha. A nut from my college would drove an hour away to the closest Taco Bell.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if school is free, will the kid need to work part time? Davidson is rural, so there may not be any good opportunities.

Davidson is not rural. It is suburban, and close to Charlotte. There are many off-campus jobs at restaurants, shops, grocery stores within a mile of campus. Students often work on campus, too.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is at Davidson receiving FA and is also working 8 hours a week. The job has been great for adding structure to DC's routine and the money has also been helpful. DC earns about $200 a month which has been more than enough to cover extras that arise. Davidson also has Lula Bell's, a great resource for all students; but extra support is available for those who need it most.

https://www.davidson.edu/offices-and-services/civic-engagement/lula-bells-resource-center

Davidson definitely has some full-pay students, but according to their website, "about 51 percent of our students receive need-based aid, and 70 percent receive aid from some source."

My DC at Davidson is full-pay but with a few exceptions, their friends are not. Several friends came to campus through Questbridge. The school does a surprisingly good job of mixing groups and I think their intentional first-year roommate matching process contributes to that climate.