<p>wjh-- I agree w/ rockerguy-- Go heels! Save as much $ money as possible and then get a masters (does Wake have grad school?)-- you’ll need it if you want any jobs in corporate, academic, gov’t. Also it’s not fun to be so straddled for cash, when so many of your peers will not have that problem. You are probably bigger than that but the demographics & socioeconomics will be more diversified in a public school U-- where most of the kids are very comfortable with complaining about not having extra$ for springbreak, etc. </p>
<p>I am surrounded w/ corporate elite friends/bosses who say it’s not where you go but how motivated you are.
One way to keep expenses down, alot, is to become an RA in junior year. It’s a great gig and will save you from taking out more loans. Do it wherever you go.</p>
<p>Also your Dad maybe able to qualify for his undergraduate degree if he speaks to the college where he went and they might apply his own “life skills” to college credit if he writes a couple of papers on it.</p>