@palm715 Interesting info about the meal plan and housing at NEU. I will look into that. We are going to accepted students day at Drexel this weekend and see how that goes. Silly as it may be, she joined Drexel’s accepted students facebook group and has been excited to see students that have the same musical tastes, etc as her. Drexel may be the best middle ground solution. With the scholarships they gave her it is only a bit more expensive than Temple (“a bit” in college cost terms!). It has a major that gives her a lot of animation skills (Visual Effects and Animation), and with the honors program it looks like she could even tweak the major to include components of CS and Math to make it more personalized. I am still a bit concerned about a few aspects of Drexel (the quarter system might be too fast paced for her…and getting a degree from the Art/Design school still scares me a bit rather than going for a straight CS degree) but we will see how we feel after Sunday.
Husband still thinks Temple is the best idea.
@MYOS1634 I’ll be honest–I actually don’t know the difference between all the various loans yet. I’ve had a psychological block against looking into them since I really would prefer to avoid loans altogether. I guess it’s getting to the time when I need to learn about them just to make an educated decision. However, I was talking about 40K in any kind of loan.
Thanks everyone and good luck.