yeah, there’s an IKEA about 45 min away!
And a Nebraska Furniture Mart with a ginormous ferris wheel!
We drove past what would probably be THE biggest furniture store I’ve ever seen on our drive last April from the hotel in north Dallas to Austin College. I mean, it was truly enormous! Maybe this is the same one?
I think Centre has incredible outcomes for health science majors. I looked at it very carefully for my S22 who was interested in nursing at one point. Just from memory — they have a hospital within walking distance of campus for rounding/volunteer hours, guaranteed internship program, 84% med school placement (!!), and I watched a YT on their pre-med advising that left me feeling very impressed. I would also prefer Danville to Sherman as a place to spend four years. Obviously our kids will have their preferences… but just wanted to make sure you were aware of all these advantages!
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If you were staying near the airport, then probably so - NFM (like IKEA) is on the likely route to Sherman from there.
That’s good to know! I personally am not ruling it out, but my DH definitely doesn’t want D24 in KY and D24 today said, “I told you that I didn’t want to go to college in KY, but I’m willing to go see it.”
I had forced her to apply because from what I could tell on Youtube and hunting around on their website (and looking at Google Maps) that it sounded like it had a lot going for it for the reasons you mentioned. 
And at any rate, it might end up being a possibility for D26 a couple of years from now. We’re visiting there in person later this month.
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My daughter just moved to Austin . She feel in love with it on a visit. I would think there is plenty to do in Austin proper.
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Ironically, despite the name, it’s not located near Austin! 
Oh whoops 
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Curious… did you make this pro/cons list or did your D24? It’s very thorough! I don’t know your kid, but not sure having a movie theater in town is a big enough perk for an 18 year old…
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One of D24’s specific items in her list was that there needed to be a movie theater somewhere in the area so she could go to the movies. It’s a “thing” in our family. Hard to explain.
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I’m glad you’re going to visit Centre. I think you will prefer it over AC but obviously it’s your D’s choice. Southwestern has a lovely campus but it’s far enough from Austin (and the traffic is terrible!) that I can’t imagine going into the city very often. Did she apply to Trinity U by chance?
She did not apply to Trinity Univ. Would have been a high reach school in terms of admissions, plus it was a high reach financially and it was not a school that we would have been able to afford.
DH was a little grumpy yesterday over the upcoming trip to Centre, especially since D24 said yesterday that she doesn’t want to go to college in KY (even though she’s never been there). He kept asking how come we’re going there if she says that she doesn’t even want to attend. I told him that: (1) we already bought the plane tickets; (2) The Child already has a vocal audition scheduled there in person; (3) if he really doesn’t want to go, then he can stay home, but kid & I are still going; and (4) we haven’t even SEEN the place yet, so why not at least ‘try before you buy’ (i.e., see it in person before you say no)?
Then he grumbled, “Well, I’ve never BEEN to Kentucky before and I kind of want to go.” Ok, then you’ll come with us! 
Look at it this way…you’ll at least get to see another corner of America that we’ve never seen before. Besides, if it doesn’t float D24’s boat, maybe it will a couple of years later for D26. You never know. From everything I’ve seen so far, it looks like a great school with some good opportunities and a pretty close-knit campus community. Never would have known about it were it not for a couple of podcasts mentioning it and our school counselor talking about CTCL schools a couple of years ago.
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Got email this morning from school counselor, who said that yesterday in the college counseling class, D24 announced that she got acceptances from her last 2 colleges and everybody in the class clapped for her. 
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Not a great decision season for my kid - in at Lesley (but likely unaffordable for us), waitlisted at Endicott, deferred at Wheaton and rejected from UNE.
The UNE one is honestly surprising - they are 90% rate and she wasn’t applying for stem or nursing.
She is working on her LOCI and will submit her midyear grades for Wheaton, and is going to also go visit College of the Atlantic (we are pretty local to it, and she has a day off for midterms) which is the MOST selective, but also a quirkier place, too.
Maybe EA was the wrong move for this kid - but, she’ll figure out something. (she also still has SMCC as an acceptance…)
How frustrating! 
Hang in there.
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Community college is an awesome way to save a boatload of money on college expenses though!
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For sure!
Now that I am home, she is surprised by the rejection, but not disappointed. It wasn’t her favorite of the schools we toured so it just takes it off the table. (although the CC has a 2+2 with this school for art ed, so she could end up there in a few years anyway, maybe? But by that point she’d be eligible for better dorms, and the freshman dorms were a major turn off.)
She’s going to look at other schools that would have an NPC around what we’d pay for the other schools and maybe do a few more RD apps. Certainly not the end of the world.
And I think I appreciate the rejection coming after the holidays, as the waitlist/deferral notifications were done right BEFORE Christmas, which if they’d been acceptances it would have been fun to celebrate! But getting it on a post-holiday Friday is probably a better vibe.
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That’s unfortunate. Good that she is taking it fine. There is still time to apply to other schools. 2+2 track for good schools is a fallback option. Checking NPC and affordability is the key.
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I know your D has an interest in art and it sounds like she would like to stay in New England. I don’t know what you need the NPCs to look like, but has she considered any of these schools?
- Bridgewater State (MA): About 8100 undergrads
- Plymouth State (NH): About 3300 undergrads
- Saint Michael’s (VT): About 1200 undergrads
- U. of Maine at Farmington: About 1600 undergrads
- Westfield State (MA): About 3900 undergrads