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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pitt and UMD are both good schools; I would consider them academic peers. I certainly wouldn’t pay extra just so my kid could go hang out in Pittsburgh for four years instead of College Park. That’s just crazy to me. If living in Pittsburgh was that important to my kid, she can take the money she saved by going to Maryland and move to Pittsburgh after graduation. [/quote]

My kid’s merit scholarship from Pitt makes it cost about the same as UMD-CP for us.  We like Pitt much better.

I agree they are academic peers.[/quote]
If cost is equal, I think students should go wherever they like best. Likewise, if parents are so wealthy that cost of attendance is not a factor, then again, fo where your heart desires. What I don’t get (and I say this as someone who did go to college 2000 miles from home) is the idea of kids (or parents) going into debt or parents doing things like digging into their retirement funds only so their kid can get the experience of going far away to school, especially when said school isn’t any better than what they’d get at their state flagship. [/quote]

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