College thoughts for complicated situation

bopper
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:59:35 +0000

Right now you seem to be in the mode of “I want my dd to go through the normal selection of college process with just this little extra factor to include.”

Like others say, she will need support. Consider changing your mode to “I want to be less than 2 hours away, what is the best school for her.”

I would also look at cost as a factor as she may need to take longer than 4 years. Or maybe she can take some classes on line during summer/winter break.

You may think about how well she does now, but that is with you organizing her health care, making her food, driving her to school, comforting her. It will be different when she has to get her self around campus, get to the dining hall when she doesn’t feel well, go see a doctor on her own.

Also she needs to be able to not have to take a week or two off of a 15 week semester…my DD was in the hospital for a week and she ended up having to drop a course. She did get accommodations on making up work and getting more time, but you still have to do the work.