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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody cares where you get your undergraduate degree. I'd tell her that I'd pay for a year of travel once she's done if she chooses the cheaper school. Hell, she'd learn more in that year than 4 years at either institution.[/quote]

True but grad schools and Med schools do take it into account. And honestly, DD is scoffing at high school 2.0 now, but when she goes to college and feels like fish out water like all of us sometimes did, she has the option of reconnecting with her high school friends and shifting down into that easy state college, job in home town, hanging out with high school buddies until well past middle age mentality. Maybe OP is fine with that, but if she has potential and dreams to big things, it would be sad if she ends up at middle age and regrets taking the safe choice but has two kids and a job at GM. [/quote]

This is absurd, and eerily reminiscent of my own mistaken assumptions about Michigan vs. Brown when I was in high school. I chose Michigan (with heavy pressure from my parents), and went to the most highly ranked ivy graduate program in my field afterwards. Having attended Michigan did not hold me back. I did the undergraduate honors program recommended above, lived on campus all four years, and had a mix of new friends plus one high school friend. Michigan has a LARGE alumni community here and throughout the country; for every alum who's 'middle aged with two kids and a job at GM', I've met two who are doing more interesting things and continuing to pursue their dreams.  Michigan is not an 'easy state college,' and its specialty programs are particularly rigorous.

OP hook your DD up with some Michigan alums (that was part of my parents' persuasive attack) and send her to Michigan. [/quote]

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