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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if you are talking about grad school.  Not college.  It's a lot for a 17-18 year old to know where they might want to end up and choose a college accordingly.  You're still pretty young to have a good idea.  [/quote]

I had a good idea 30+ years ago and I am still here![/quote]

Same - we had relatives in VA that we visited a lot and I wanted to move here from CA for college.  Was accepted at W&M and Georgetown but they were not affordable so I went to a CA university, worked in LA for a few years and then used that experience to get a job in DC.  Would have been nice to have my college network here rather than mostly in CA but it hasn't been an issue for my career.

Now, of course, DS want's to do the opposite -- go to college and potentially settle in CA.  We'll see.  I do have concerns about how expensive it is to live there but have told him he's welcome to apply to CA schools and if he can get one to fit our budget that's fine.  Otherwise, he'll likely end up at a VA state U.  I do think if your long-term goals are to move OOS, then you should put more weight on national name recognition for the college.  For DS, who likes JMU and VA Tech, that means I'd say he should pick VA Tech since, IME, more people on the West coast have heard of that while nobody knows JMU.[/quote]

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