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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is committed to UVA (out of state and chose over Berkeley, Michigan, Northwestern and a few others) and very excited about it but about 10 days ago got off the waitlists for SEAS at both Penn and Columbia. DC was given roughly 2 weeks to decide by each school because of pending financial aid (we receive(d) a minimal amount as we have 2 older kids in college). 
DC really wants to stick with UVA because they believe it will be a more enjoyable, well-rounded. classic college experience.  
Major is uncertain but probably statistics/data science or economics. DC applied to different majors at each school and I'm not actually sure what.

What would you do as a parent in this situation?  All the schools will end up costing about the same (roughly $75K/year give or take). 
Did your kid make a similar choice?

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Same choice (UVA) over Brown.

It killed me inside a little bit at the time tbh but he is so happy at UVA.  He knew a lot of people going in and he made a ton of new friends, many from this area that he didn't know before.  I would not risk this college experience he is having for a marginal improvement and frankly unless it's HYPSM the difference is marginal if he is going to go to grad school.

Let him go to UVA.  Neither of the[/quote]

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