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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, did it during junior year as all of my kids starting developing their college list.  You can learn a lot about a school from other parents.  You learn what the real issues are at a school, ones that the administration is never going to publicize.  So you learn if finding housing after freshman year is a huge pain in the ass or damn near impossible, you learn if half the dorms are mold infested, you learn how the administration responds to major issues (good and bad), you also learn how helpful the parent community can be or not be.  With all of my kids ending up 2-3K miles from home, I was glad they picked schools where the community is tight knit.

For example: as covid hit spring 2020, my kid had come home for spring break with their backpack and a 20" suitcase.  Then covid hit and the world shut down while they were at home.  They had no textbooks/notebooks/anything related to their classes.  Before online classes began, my kid was able to get someone at the university to go to their dorm room and retrieve their books/notebooks/items they needed for academics.  The school then allowed another parent to pick them up and ship them to us.  And I Venmo'd the parent.  
A month later, thankfully roommate was able to clean out the dorm room and ship all of my kid's belongings to us.  But if roommate had not been able to go, I had 15+ parents who were willing to send their local kids/or themselves into the dorm room and pack up my kids things and ship it to us.  
Same goes for post of "my kid is sick and needs something". I've seen local parents go to the hospital to sit with a kid they don't know with appedicitis/emergency surgery/health issues and be the local parent until the parents can get there 24 hours later (have to fly).  You name it, I've seen parents happily step in to help out.  
I for one am glad my kids are at schools with helpful parents. 
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