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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your son sounds a lot like our youngest son.  During spring break of 11th-grade he fell in love with Columbia -- a great school, yes, but not at all what we pictured for hiim.  DH and I both attended small schools tucked away in the New England countryside, as did our 2 older DCs.  We urged our son to consider smaller schools and to keep Columbia in mind for grad school.  He agreed to visit several small schools, but even though he couldn't really say why, he just didn't feel the love.

We fretted . . . he applied to Columbia early and got in . . . we fretted some more . . . he started freshman  year . . . we continued with our intensive fretting regimen . . .and . . . he had a great first year!  This past weekend we drove his older brother up to his small New England college and on the (long) drive back, he offered this observation: "You know, sometimes I think it would have been great to have gone to a place like Middlebury or Dartmouth where I could ski and hike, but then I know I'd miss the diversity at Columbia and the excitement of living in NY."

Some morals of this story:
kids can actually know themselves and their needs better than you think -- even if they can't always articulate this self-knowledge;
there are trade-offs in every choice and recognizing that is an important part of growing up; 
fretting is a big waste of time -- but, OP, you are probably smart enough to know this already!   
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