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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No! Not at all but would like her to consider other Ivies/ comparable schools. Or as someone suggested and my husband said the same one stipulation be that she be with a random roommate to as to matriculate like everyone else.

I guess what I did not express well is that I don't like the idea of her going into a school with a "posse" already there, that gives her no reason to branch out at all. Part of this experience is living with a roommate you don't know and learning how to coexist with a perfect stranger in maybe a room that's not so great, and meeting all kinds of new people and making plans with new friends. I just don;t want her to be in X's web....all the time at least.[/quote]

Let her make her own mistakes.  Seriously.  Let this be your mantra:  my daughter is her own person and at age 18 is legally an adult and must live her own life.  I cannot live her life and make her choices for her.

Give her advice if she asks for it.  If you don't want to give her any money if she makes what you perceive to be the 'wrong' decision, so be it and tell her that in advance. Let her do work study and earn her way through college.  She'll be a better adult for it anyway.[/quote]

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