<p>AFA - My advice is to hang on a couple of weeks. IMHO you will probably have a scholarship forthcoming from USC. I did not see your d’s stats , but if she a contender for Ivy she is probably going to receive something from USC.
And most of those do come with in-state tuition…
I agree with you that it is a must - my d has been told that if she does not keep her grades up to keep her scholarship she will need to transfer. We are not willing to pay the OOS tuition for her to continue when there are many in-state options here.
We made up a spreadsheet and included travel costs in the information when she was deciding. What I did not count on was my usually very outgoing daughter getting homesick and wanting to come home more often than we had planned. Flights in and out of Columbia are not great, so that is a factor as well.
She is happy at USC and loves her classes and life in Columbia. When you visit, you will see why all of these OOS kids like it so much.
The other day when it was about 0 degrees with the wind chill here, she phoned to let me know it was 71 there and she had on a tank top and flip flops…what a brat!</p>