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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this sounds a very expensive proposition with no AP credit allowed, travel costs, visa fees etc wow[/quote]
Study abroad programs inherently require extra costs, and joint programs like these that are 2 and 2 are like study abroad on steroids. So yeah. Not for everyone. [/quote]

[b]Plus if you live in VA, you have to pay OOS tuition. That was a deal killer for us. [/quote][/b]

But you aren't technically paying OOS to UVA. you are instead paying St Andrews fees directly to St Andrewws (which is lower than OOS to W&M) Of course SA wouldn't care about deals for instate Virginia s nor would I expect it would[/quote]

You aren’t paying anything to UVA. You are paying OOS tuition to WM for the two years your kid is based there, instead of instate.

Look we have pre-paid 529 that we locked in when the kids were young. So we end up paying the same thing we would for any other state college to WM— but WM is quite a bit more expensive than other state schools. So, we save a lot on top of in state tuition.  WM won’t take 4 in state tuition semesters for the 4 semesters our kid would be at WM.  That meant my IR kid would empty their 529, rather than having money left over for a decent portion of a masters.

If you aren’t doing college and grad school of a budget, this doesn’t apply to you. We are. And it’s important to us our kid gets out of undergrad with no debt and we minimize the grad school debt, so loan repayment doesn’t have to factor into her early career decisions.  The cost of the JDP program may be reasonable in your eyes. But it didn’t make financial sense for us. [/quote]

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