We are in DC, so we had DC Tag which covered $10,000 per year in any public college in the country. I told my kids they could apply to a private college - but we were not visiting until they had a financial aid offer in hand that would make the price comparable to a public.

I also told my kids they had to go to a college that was at least 60 miles away from our home. Part of college involves getting away and learning how to live on your own.

We visited multiple schools where the tour guides opened with their pronouns and/or a "stolen land acknowledgement." While we didn't outright nix those schools, we strongly discouraged them. Thankfully, DC felt the same way about spending four years in an environment dominated by insufferable woke SJWs as we did, and chose accordingly.

P.S. I know, I know: "Hope your DC enjoys Liberty." You're not funny or original.

Cost and only pay if the chance to get a job after college is possible. Grade must be at least 3.0 in college.

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Anonymous wrote:Put my foot down at Notre Dame and Holy Cross.

Yes, the last thing you'd want is for your kid to go to a school with great academics, an engaged community, great school spirit, loyal alumni and amazing outcomes!

Hit the Catholic nerve didn’t I?

Anonymous wrote:Put my foot down at Notre Dame and Holy Cross.

Yes, the last thing you'd want is for your kid to go to a school with great academics, an engaged community, great school spirit, loyal alumni and amazing outcomes!

We told ours how much we're willing and able to pay. They're free to go anywhere they can get in that falls within that limit. That is how all parents should do it.

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

No to U Miami. The last thing this particular kid needs is beach distractions.

Of course. I said no to expensive private colleges that offer no merit.

But I said yes to expensive private colleges that do offer merit, and that’s where they’re going.

Yes. During college, my older DC visited a high school friend that attended another college and told me so many kids were snorting coke all weekend. A few years later, my younger child wanted to apply to this school and I wouldn’t allow it. My older DC attends a school with a party reputation, so it isn’t like they had never seen coke being used at parties. It was the amount and how many kids were doing it.

They were allowed to apply anywhere they wanted. We discussed pros and cons. A few dropped off the list because the application process was too much.

My eldest actually attended a college we couldn’t afford and told us he would come home in a year if he didn’t get a scholarship and he got a scholarship.

I tried to guide not control.

Anonymous wrote:Cost

Cost flat out or only if they didn’t get financial aid/merit?

Put my foot down at Notre Dame and Holy Cross.

Cost

- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?