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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP ~ if I were advising your DC (and your family) I would start with this: Did you or your husband go to a private or public college? I contend that this is a starting point because -when it comes down to it -parents tend to value their own experience and wish to provide a similar experience for their children.

So having said that. My husband & I went to large state universities - in different states but there was a lot of similarities, both Division 1 sports, neither of us in the greek system. U's were big enough that greek didn't matter. We both had very good experiences. Not really knowing how else to help our DC we handed her a list. It is was list of state flagships listed from most to least expensive. We drew a line under the top few and said all others we could afford. There were 50 schools. We asked her to start researching any of them and to eventually have a list of 10 to apply to. We told her she could add privates or others we hadn't thought of IF she had a good reason and we could afford. 
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I have to gently disagree with this.  DH and I both went to large universities and DC is going to a SLAC and a particularly small one at that.  We realized early on that it was her process and she might not pick the kind of school we would go to.  But she has to live with it for four years.

In the beginning visit a cross section of schools and parents need to keep an open mind about schools of the type they didn't attend.[/quote]

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