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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I find it utterly bizarre that you allowed your daughter to apply to any school that would actually be a stretch financially.  It sounds like all of the other schools she applied to are expensive privates - why?  You say she wasn't interested in a large state school, but surely there were small or mid-sized Pennsylvania state schools she could have included in her list?  Your situation is so bizarre because while you don't want her to attend the no-name school for free, you also seem hesitant to pay $200,000 on an expensive private.

Where are your state school options?[/quote]

She said that the kid didn’t like big state schools. Get off her back about the list and try to be constructive!

OP- if your kid is okay with the free school, go for it. She can transfer to UMD or your flagship state school if it feels wrong… with nothing out of pocket. Good luck. 
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Is it easy to transfer to UMD or UVA?[/quote]

Not particularly, really not sure why people think it would be so easy to transfer from ESU to a T50 public.  Way better off coming from a local community college with an established pathway.[/quote]

This. East Stroudsburg is not a good school and has no relationship with UMD or UVA. Does it have matriculation agreements with any decent PA publics? Because, if not, this is a firm no for me.

What state do you live in, OP? If she can get into Colgate & Villanova, there is a happy medium. Perhaps the smaller non-flagship campus of a state college?

I went to HYPS and I 100% admit I am a school snob. But I would do everything in my power to convince my kid to go somewhere better. And, being honest, I would cave and take a second mortgage/co-sign loans/etc to send her to either Colgate or Villanova. They are *so* much better than ESU. It is really hard to overstate the difference. [/quote]

What's the happy medium in VA? There are other threads for the various states that come down hard  on those too--- VA? Lynchburg? Bridgewater? Roanoke? UMW? CNU?[/quote]

I think CNU and UWM are squarely in the middle in VA these days. JMU too, though it’s gotten more competitive (but still a pretty high acceptance rate overall).[/quote]

All of these schools have acceptance rates pretty near one another . . 75-85%. So aren't they all in the middle?[/quote]
Acceptance rate isn’t the only criteria for how a school is rated. [b]UMW and CNU are definitely stronger and more well-regarded[/b] than Bridgewater and Lynchburg, even if acceptance rates are in a similar range.[/quote]

How so?[/quote]

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