Advice on talking about Out-Of-State options

thumper1
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:05:22 +0000

I agree with others. You need to have a talk about college finances with your parents too. If you go OOS, you will either be paying OOS public college costs or private school costs. Sometimes this can be significantly more than your instate public universities. You need to know how much your parents WILL contribute towards your college costs.

Also…why do you want to go OOS? If it’s just to “get away”…the reality is that it doesn’t matter whether you are 10 miles away or 3000 miles away, you CAN make your life revolve around your college and not activities or parents from home.

Both of my kids went to school OOS, and both to private schools. BUT both were able to articulate well their reasons for their school choices, and they related more to what the schools had to offer them educationally than just wanting to be in a different place (although for both that was ONE of the reasons they gave). In addition, financially this was not a burden to our family.