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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Montgomery County and really like it, MS- age kids are happy in good schools, we like our house ...

but I keep looking at in-state tuition for very good Virginia universities and comparing it with our more limited options in Maryland.  Aside from UM College Park, I don't know that there are really attractive options. And even College Park isn't ideal -- so large, and [b]not really far enough away from home to constitute what I consider a real college experience[/b].

Contrast that with Virginia options ... UVA, William and Mary, Virginia Tech, and JMU ... they all seem so much better.  And the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition is so significant.  I could pay my kids' tuition in state without any issue at all.

Would you move just to get in-state tuition in Virginia?[/quote]

Right, because they won't be able to party all day without parental supervision? My kids are going to attend college from home. There, I said. I am from Europe, and it's very common there, and both DH and I did it. I find American approach to college ridiculous, parents paying tens of thousands of dollars to have immature persons attend party schools (pretty much all schools, compared to where I went to college) thousands of miles away. No, thanks.[/quote]
I don't get the emphasis on the "college experience" either.  I thought people go to college for an education, not an experience.  It is just such a bizarre way of looking at such an expensive investment to me and I'm not sure uprooting kids from their support systems and communities is that good for them either.

My daughter may or may not attend college from home but thankfully the conversation is centered on her specific interests in majors and not "experience." [/quote]

This is true. The idea is to send your kids away to school to meet new people and live in a different area to get out of your high school bubble. But what happens is that many students actually delay maturing and spend way too much time getting drunk. They would be better off living close to home, going to school, working, saving money and would actually mature faster. Now that colleges cost so much, I think parents question the idea of sending their child away for what has become a four year party. [/quote]

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