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[quote=Anonymous]My son wanted Ithaca for their film/communications program which is very well regarded. My wife and I could not warm up to the school for some reason. It felt like their communications program was very well regarded but the rest of the school gave off a Long Island mediocre student who was there to drink his way through the cold winters. Financial aid wouldn’t commit to a four year package. My son would have liked to attend but I believe that was partly based on his limited time spent exploring other programs. I know this sounds somewhat harsh.

He is at a CTCL school. I showed him the curriculum at a bunch of great SLACs that had interesting course catalogs in his area of interest and where my wife and I felt he would get a better education. Frankly I remember telling one of his potential Ithaca professors the name of one his admitted schools and that we were driving to go do an overnight. She literally looked at me with “what are you doing here look” as she explained what a good school the SLAC was...

So we’ll regarded for communications but we weren’t feeling it. And while Ithaca is a great college town my sense is that most kids likely stayed up on the hill/campus. And for whatever reason I just got the vibe that their was an awful lot of pot being smoked - nothing concrete - just the vibe.

I told my son it wasn’t worth the money. He’s happy at a CTCL school. It was a risk we took - if it didn’t work out I would risked alienating him but I thought he could do better and where he landed I think he did. Some parents might disagree but sometimes you have to parent. [/quote]

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