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[quote=Anonymous]As our kids started considering colleges, we set down the rule that they were going to make the choice.

We were going to talk, daily, for years, about all parts of the decision.  If they were spending our money, we were going to understand why.

If they couldn't support their decision, day in and day out, it wasn't going to happen.  Some decisions would be easy to support, others almost impossible.

If either wanted to go to school 3000 miles away at $75k schools to study theater, all they had to do was to be willing and able to do everything in their power to show they knew all sides of the decision.

We made it clear that to make what we considered a bad decision would take A LOT MORE WORK than making what we considered a good decision.

Of the 100s of kids our kids knew in HS, we knew of ONE who showed flashes of the all-in attitude that could have done enough to support the 3000/$75k/theater school.

We pointed him out to our kids and explained that he was half crazy.  Incredibly dedicated to one set of things and incredibly lazy about everything else.  This kid spent his life savings one summer to have a research experience before he turned 16 but regularly got Cs in PE.

Our kids picked middle of the road decisions.  One picked a hard to support major at an in-state school.  The other picked an "expensive" school (but not $75k expensive) but a major they had studied all through HS.[/quote]

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