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[quote=Anonymous]I personally appreciated the opportunity to experience another part of the country for college. I definitely think it was part of my "education" to go away from home. It had nothing to do with partying.

That said, I don't think it is a necessity, and it may be a luxury I won't be able to provide for my own children.

We live in VA and have/will have saved enough for our kids to attend VA state schools. We won't have enough money to send them anywhere they want, unless they get merit aid. (We won't qualify for enough financial aid to bring the cost of many private schools down to the cost of in-state public.) And while I am okay with my kids taking on a modicum of debt to attend college, I am not okay with their mortgaging their future to do so.

So they may HAVE to go to school in-state, however much I or they would like the chance to experience another part of the country, and so I am glad that I live in a state (VA) with good state options. That said, I think MD had pretty good state options as well, and I don't know that I would move to VA solely because of college. As for alternatives to UMD, don't forget about St. Mary's, which I've heard great things about.

I know it is nice to be able to think about sending kids wherever they want to go, to their dream schools, but the reality is that this is not a viable option for many, many families, and I don't think parents should necessarily feel bad if it isn't. My kids have had almost zero input into their educational choices thus far. They go to school where we have told them to go. If they have limited choices for college, is that really such a disservice?[/quote]

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