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[quote=Anonymous][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 alternatives you listed are worth any loss of happiness during those 4 years.  [/quote][/quote]

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