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<p>Because she didn’t use distance as a criteria, she used time from St Louis. </p>
<p>My D1 is in a school 900 miles away and it takes 4.5 hours door to door. My D2 wants to go to a school 300 miles away and it takes over 5 hours to drive there and about the same to fly since there are no direct flights. Which one is really “closer”?</p>
<p>A good school near an airport with direct service to St Louis is “closer” IMHO than anything else mentioned here.</p>
<p>Actually, it’s a $60 shuttle van ride from MSP to Carleton. That’s probably not too bad. 1 hour checkin, 1.5 hour flight, 1 hour van shuttle. Add a little for the drive to the airport and the connections, maybe it’s 4 hours.</p>