Early HS graduation & merit aid?

[ucbalumnus]

@BelknapPoint

Kid’s college choice, at least as a traditional student (whether or not 18 years old yet), can be almost 100% a decision by the parent(s).

I would say that the biggest college choice a student has is the most basic choice: whether or not to even attend college after completing high school (at least right away). Is this almost 100% a decision to be made by the parent(s)?

Parent(s) can almost prevent a kid from attending college immediately after high school if they want. This is not to say that most parents will actually do that if college is financially affordable.

Again, this is a something that parents have the power to do, even though only very authoritarian or otherwise extreme parents will actually do that.