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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won't let my child go to school closer than 60 miles from our house - he needs to be at least that far away.

I haven't limited him, but we have steered him gently towards places that are, at most, a short, direct plane flight away.

Who knows where he will end up - but I hope he stay son the East Coast.[/quote]

Really strange.  So the kid can’t go to Johns Hopkins which is only 47 miles away from DC?[/quote]

PP with the 60 mile radius here.  My child can't go to Hopkins because his grades and scores are nowhere near good enough to get into Hopkins, so this is a moot point :)

But my thinking in general is that my child has grown up in a bubble in DC.  I hope that he returns to this area when he is done with college, but, at least for four years, it will be good for him to get out of the bubble.  [/quote]

Ha. Fair enough.  I grew up here. I went to a State school.  Husband went to Hopkins:).

I did not feel 'in the bubble' by any means.  I lived abroad post-college.  I traveled extensively.  This is a very International area.  There are so many cultures here.  My kids go to school with kids from all over the world and who encompass many different nationalities.  They have also been out of the country many times.

I just think---leave it up to the kid. I'm not putting a quota on miles. If my kid wants to go to Georgetown which is 2 miles away, go to Georgetown. I know kids that did and were actually home less than kids 2 hours away.  [/quote]

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