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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're beginning the college search for my rising college junior, and I'm embarrassed to say that it's revealing some biases that I didn't realize he had.

I'll mention a school that I heard good things about, and he'll immediately veto it based on location and his stereotype of that location.  For example, I brought up 2 schools, 10 miles apart.  One is in Southern Ohio.  That was fine by him.  He's open to exploring and learning more about this school.  The other is in Northern Kentucky, and he told me flat out "no".  When I asked why, all he could say was "I can't live in Kentucky"!  He vetoed a great school in Wisconsin, and told me his reason "I've seen 'How to Make a Murderer'".  For a school in Iowa his objection was "corn".

I suspect that if he actually visited some of these schools, he'd either discover that he likes them, or find a more legitimate reason to turn them down.  But I can't afford to fly him all over the country to look at schools.  Our plan is to look at every option within about 2 hours of home, or close to places we're already visiting (e.g. Grandma's house) and once we have a really good sense of what he likes, fly him out to see a carefully selected handful of schools in other areas.

How do I help him learn about areas of the country he hasn't had an opportunity to visit, to get him to be more open to the idea?

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If the one in southern Ohio is Miami University, he will see quite a bit of corn getting to and out of Oxford.  :)[/quote]

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