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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not going to happen. If you are looking to dcum and reddit for help, you are way over your head.[/quote]

Kids pursue all kinds of things with only basic support and information from parents.[/quote]

[b]Well it’s not the kid posting here, is it? [/b]I think a kid really on their own path could pull this off but it seems clear that OP is in over her head in thinking this is anywhere similar to US colleges (expecting a culture of touring on spring break that may not even exist in a country with a totally different higher ed system). [/quote]

I didn’t have my kid post here because there are so many toxic jerks. And I was right.

There also so many helicopter parents who write their kids’ college essays that they can’t fathom a parent who lets their child have agency in decisions like this or encourages them to take a different path. [/quote]

With all due respect you and your child are deeply naive and uniformed about what higher ed consists of outside of the US. They can study in Latin America and do archeology via a number of pathways but enrolling in a Colombian university (based on going to Spanish immersion which often does not get a kid anywhere close to fluency) is a fanciful notion. It’s not the US. There is not going to be a “tour the college” program over Colombian spring break. The socioeconomic equivalents of your child are probably touring colleges in the US … [/quote]

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