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[quote=Anonymous]We added 1-2 college walk throughs/visits on various vacations once DD turned 15ish. TBH, most were stabs in the dark: U of Boulder, College of the Atlantic, Barnard ...

After seeing a handful of schools, it was clear that urban schools felt right. Then, we focused on cities that seemed exciting and looked for options there. Finally, we started looking at cost. While we'd saved enough to fund 4y at any school, we told her the money could also be used as she wished (down payment for a flat, start up capital, grad school, etc).

In the end, she chose to drop all US university applications and focused on schools in Scotland (Edinburgh/Glasgow), London, and NL because they were so much more affordable. She got into 8/9 of her choices.

DD is currently 3 weeks into her first semester at University of Amsterdam and feels like she finally found heaven. As someone who identifies as LGBT, she couldn't have asked for a more welcoming city/university community. Her housing and campus is in science park, which is outside of the chaotic central area. The transition has been surprisingly smooth in spite of needing to jump through a lot of immigration steps that a US school would not have required.

As parents, we definitely took on some of the very early leg work of identifying some non-US options that had programs she might be interested in. And keeping track of deadlines for two (initially it was four!) really different country/school systems required a helping hand. But once we got a good tracking sheet up and running, she was able to do most of the actual applications and extra testing independently.

LSE, U of Edinburgh, and Leiden were all higher "ranked", but she only had a strong feeling of connection at Amsterdam, and it's been great to see her happy and confident with her choice. [/quote]

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