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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who was an international student in college (all 4 years) I can tell you that it was EXTREMELY hard to be completely on my own in a country I knew very little about. Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done and I was completely on board with being here. Cheaper or not, do not do this if she is not in favor of it.[/quote]

Being at university and on your own for the first time is hard for most kids.  I have American relatives with kids at Canadian universities, and their kids are super happy to be there.   Any college pangs of the first year were due to just being at college with a new set of people for the first time, not because it was Canadian.  [/quote]

You have no idea what you're talking about. Sure, someone from Michigan isn't going to have a hard time being a couple of hours away in a country that's basically the same as the US. Someone going to the UK, Sweden, or Germany is going to have a much different experience. If you haven't done it, you shouldn't be telling us how easy it was. [/quote]

How did you get to be an adult without realizing your experiences are not universal?  Sorry that being an international student during college was traumatic for you. It isn't traumatic for everyone.

I shared the stories of my family members who are happy in Canada, because the OP specifically asked about how to get their kid interested in the possibility of universities in Canada.  If you want to believe it's false and that they're secretly traumatized, then that's the fault of your own brain.[/quote]

You clearly haven't attended a school on a different continent at 17 so please stop telling me or anyone else what the experience is like. The fault of your brain is that you think you know better than the person with first hand experience. [/quote]

What is wrong with you?  OP literally asked people to share experiences about how to encourage their DD to consider international schools. That's what people are doing.[/quote]

What is wrong with you? Have you attended an international university thousands of miles away from home? I have! I shared my personal experience. It takes a special kind of idiot to think that it's OK to push your child into this, knowing they don't want to do it just to save a buck. It's not something a loving parent does.[/quote]

Feel free to offer your bank account to pay for American universities for these poor "abused" high school students.    There's nothing wrong with sending kids overseas to college and to encourage them to think more broadly beyond borders to consider good options at cheaper schools that aren't immediately obvious to a 17 year old.  My friend's kid has been having a great time studying at LSE.  Yes, it's a different time zone, but it's the same distance by plane as sending your kid from the DMV to California.  And it's less than half the price of NYU, the school she turned down to attend LSE.[/quote]
Not half : Econ degree at LSE is 34k pounds — that’s 46,000 U.S. NYU is 69k tuition. But, of course, plenty of schools that are NYU caliber in the U.S. that offer merit aid. NYU would not be the choice of penny pinchers in the first place, so it is hard to argue the UK was necesssary for “cost” reasons. Your friend is being disingenuous.[/quote]

You must be awfully rich if you think a savings of 24K per year isn't meaningful.  Also, LSE is typically a 3 year undergrad degree (can be extended to 4 in some cases, but for most it's three).  That's (24*3)+80 that would have been paid for a 4th year at NYU that the parents are saving by sending their kid to LSE.   That's a 150K savings for LSE vs. NYU.[/quote]

+1  Have a family member at King's College in London.  It's much cheaper than the private schools they got into in the USA.  And the student member has loved his experience so far.[/quote]

KCL is a great college.  I know several faculty there.  All are very sharp, but also kind to students.[/quote]

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