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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I refused to apply to the state school down the street. It was 15-20 minutes from home, and that held absolutely no appeal to me. I probably could have gone for almost free, too. My parents luckily told me to go to the best school I wanted, and they would figure out finances. Crazy that we are now looking at paying more for in state tuition than they paid for my fancy private school ;p[/quote]

If this were my scenario, the decision wouldn’t have been left up to my kid.[/quote]

What do you mean? My parents never pushed the state school on me (my HS did, though-kept getting yanked out of classes for presentations for the school and their honors program). They didn’t want me to go to school in my hometown either. The closest school I applied to was about an hour away and I wound up going to the one that was the farthest from home (8 hour drive), because it was the best school I was accepted to. I think I was the only person in my class that did not use the state school as my safety, though.[/quote]

ETA - I was an only child and my mother had to turn down Columbia because her dad said state school was good enough for girls. That also factored into their thinking.[/quote]

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