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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC has a full tuition scholarship (academic) to East Stroudsburg (applied there for reasons not relevant but also cast a wide net and all that).

Got into FAR more rigorous colleges (think, Villanova, Colgate, Lehigh) but they gave ZERO aid. And we'd be looking at $200-300K for undergraduate studies. The "in between" ones are not appealing to DC for various reasons.

Would be a pre-health path of some type.

DC is thinking of taking the full tuition scholarship. And I'm absolutely freaking out about it. I cannot find anything about their pre-health outcomes on their website. (I left these decisions re: applications mostly to her and never thought this would be what it came down to). While I'm sure there are many successful outcomes for that school, I'm feeling very anxious over the entire thing. DC worked very hard in HS and I just feel like why?

I acknowledge the snobbery in my post (i went to a similar type of school and wanted better for DC). But, I'm also legit worried about grad school and job placement outside of the small area of PA (it's more a regional school). Please give me some perspective.

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My cousin had a similar thing happen.  She got a full ride at an ok school and took it even though she got into an Ivy!  She did premed, worked in the local hospital and is now at a good medical school who is top in the niche field she wants to study.  She figured it out and made sure she was the top at the so/so undergrad school.  She has great friends from there and she knew her extracurricular and hard work would get her into a good medical school.

Another friend decided to take the expensive route. She struggled at the more-well known schools and had to take time off and then reapply for medical school.  Got into a so/so medical school, but then got an excellent residency, fellowship, and is finally in her surgeon level job.  She has high 6 figure debt, but she and her spouse still were able to buy a 7 figure home.  She has mentioned to be several times how she thinks she would have got here if she took an almost full ride with medical school component she got into instead of the fancy, name brand undergrad school.  Now she has to pay back all that debt instead of doing other things.

That is to say if your kid has the drive, they will do it.  He should go to the full ride place and you put aside what you would have for medical or graduate school or a downpayment on a home.

OR he transfers junior year so you are only paying fill price for the two last years and hell end up with a degree from the later anyway.  
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I will give you the flip side.  Friend went to Princeton thinking she would be pre-med.  Decided after Sophomore year it wasn't for her.

Ended up working for Bain Consulting after graduation.

[b]Do you think OP's kid will have that optionality, or your cousin would have had that option?[/quote][/b]

DP. Yes. [/quote]

Sure…so many ESU grads populating the ranks of top management consulting firms.[/quote]

It’s possible. [/quote]

Show an example…I mean winning the powerball is possible.[/quote]

An Ivy caliber kid at ESU would have the same outcomes. [/quote]

Explain how to all of us.[/quote]

Explain to all of us how it’s impossible for a brilliant kid from ESU to get a top consulting job. [/quote]

They won’t ever recruit there or step foot on campus…your resume just sent over the internet will be screened by AI to not make it to the desk of anyone with hiring capacity…they don’t know you were brilliant but ended up at ESU (BTW OPs kid didn’t get admitted to an Ivy), they just know you are at ESU.

Again…you are the one claiming it is possible, so give us the road map.[/quote]

Networking. [/quote]

Wow…what a road map…networking where?  With whom?[/quote]

You don't know how to network? [/quote]

Hey…send your kid to ESU and let’s see who has any interest in networking with your kid.

Of course…you wouldn’t do it. [/quote]

I'm sure they would be successful networking from ESU. Hopefully, with successful people far nicer than you.[/quote]

You are full of s**t and you know it.[/quote]

Actually, bright kids don't need to be coddled by elite colleges to get top jobs. [/quote]

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