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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not a mom of college kids yet, but I work at a university, so these threads fascinate me. And make me indignant on behalf of your awesome seniors!

Over the summer, my sister’s family and my family met up in Indiana, the “halfway point” between DC and South Dakota, where my parents live. We had a great time at my parents’ lake house.

While we were there (for a little over a week), I took my nephew, a rising junior at the time, to see IU Bloomington, my alma mater, because he hadn’t yet been on any campus tours outside of Augustana and the University of Sioux Falls, which are close to his home.

He loved it, and while we were driving back to the cottage, I said, “Hey we could go to Ball State tomorrow,” as that is 20 minutes from the lake place. He was like, that’s great.

I was later talking to my cousin who lives in Nashville on the phone, telling her what we were all up to. I said I took nephew to visit IU and Ball State. She said, “Ball State, WHY, oh my GOD, that place is trash and he’d better not go there.”

Her own sister graduated from Ball State, and is very successful. Nephew wasn’t serious about applying to either IU or Ball State, we were just getting a taste of universities different from the ones he has easy access to tour. That phone call made me realize how awful grown adults can be about colleges, and how hard it must be to be a parent of seniors sometimes! Good luck, everyone! [/quote]

Wrong take. It is not 1985 or 1994 it is 2025 there is no way in hell it is smart to send a college kid to Indiana.[/quote]

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