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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand where you are coming from, OP. The price of private universities in the US as well as the ridiculous emphasis on sports definitely has me looking internationally. My oldest considered, applied, and was accepted at a couple of great schools in Canada and EU. But you should be aware that schools outside the US do not do much hand-holding at all. When it came right down to it, my kid got nervous about how much more adult the experience would be from day 1, and how unsupported he'd find himself. It also was very intimidating for him to realize that he couldn't change his mind about his major. As in... he would have to drop out of the program and reapply to the university with no credit.

I would have been very excited if he had chosen to go but I understood that the reality was more challenging than he realized at the outset.[/quote]
+1  College students in Europe have to mature a lot more faster than the kids in the US.  This is one of the reasons why it wasn't a good fit for  DC to go there (I'm a pp who wanted my kid to go to a uni in the UK) .[/quote]

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