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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hit send too soon.  Clemson is ranked higher (55th in Undergrad engineering) than GMU and VCU, but not enough higher than I would pay for OOS.

I lived in SC for 3 years. It will be culture shock for a kid who has grown up in the DMV.  [/quote]

NP: Now that I've been through a college admission cycle, the posts about "I would pay for" and "I wouldn't pay for" are funny.

Some people can pay for literally anything they darn well please - so to each their own.

Clemson is a fantastic school. In engineering, prestige matters very little compared to other majors. Its accredited and a solid program.[/quote]

Okay. Let’s put “I would pay for” into context.

We can comfortably pay for in state schools.

We could probably pay for OOS publics, but they would be a reach. My kid might need to take out the $5000 a year student loan each year to make it work.

We can not afford elite private schools, full pay.

Given this, I would not pay for OOS over instate unless significantly better.   Clemson is not better than UVA/ VT and is not enough better than GMU/VCU that I would stretch.

I would be comfortable stretching for Michigan, UICU, many UCs, UT Austin, etc.  We would have to sacrifice other things, but it Would be worth the sacrifice.
I’m not sacrificing for Clemson.

MIT, Cal Tech and CMU May be amazing, but they are financially out of reach unless we do something like cash in retirement accounts. So they aren’t in this discussion.

That’s what “I would pay” means for me.  I would give up vacations and eating out and drive a beater car so my kid could attend. [/quote]

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