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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids are smart enough to figure out the logistics on their own.  We are full-pay and placed no restrictions on their school choices.

They watched older schoolmates and saw/heard about some of their successes and travails with close-by and far-away schools.  In a couple of situations, they saw that their friends who attended schools requiring a plane trip had more difficulties getting support in emergencies than their friends who could be reached by a reasonable car drive.  In one case, a friend was seriously hurt and it took his parents a full 24-28 hours to be able to get to their kid's side.  Our kids really reacted negatively to that and discussed how upsetting it was that the logistics of getting to and fro during an emergency were so difficult that it meant the kid was alone (friends were there but that is not the same thing) during the most scary and painful time of his life.

Additionally, all of our kids are D1 athletes.  They know that if they want us at their games, then they need to go to schools (and in a league) that are close enough for us to get to easily.  This means that they self-identified the schools that they were interested in, and worked their recruitment with that lens.

The outcome of all of this is that our closest kid is 2-3 hours away and no kid is further away than a 5-7 hour (depending on traffic) car ride.  That works for us.[/quote]

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