Haha yes. I am surprised by how it’s not brought up more as the best bang for the buck. Even OOS tuition is shockingly low.
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I feel for you and your daughter that you feel that you have to do this. This should be an incredibly happy time in her life and to have to “justify” a decision to someone else just seems deflating. Good luck to her and I hope she thrives the next 4 years.
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My friend who is a faculty at Purdue said that tuition has been frozen there for almost or over a decade to make it more affordable. His DC however didn’t want to stay there for CS and they went OOS flagship to do CS
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I think if Purdue was on either coast or the south - it would be a lot more popular. A lot of people don’t want to go to/stay in the midwest (says a Midwesterner). Most midwest states aren’t gaining population, so no big surge in high school graduates on the horizon.
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Just came back from a week-long college tour with S24. Visited a total of 6 schools, 1 EA-accepted school, and 5 RD schools we are waiting for. Very tiring but it was very good to spend time with S24 before he is off to college.
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Yes, I have a kid at Cal and the tuition is fixed for 4 years. Each year is a new “cohort”. Pretty nice for planning. It’s a pretty new change. Housing cost are not fixed, even if you live on campus all 4 years. At least they aren’t at Cal. Others may be different, but I doubt it.
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In Florida, kids only had a quarter of online school. However, even that small exposure to online classes was a huge turnoff for S24. He says he didn’t learn anything and spent almost all his time goofing off. Granted, that was 8th grade and I’m sure college, with teachers who regularly teach online, is different. Still. Small and in person suits his learning style
I also have experience as a former graduate school professor who taught several different classes in various formats. I have taught the same material in large (150+) lectures, small classes of fewer than 30, and online. In my classes, students learned better in small, in person classes (quantified by stronger performance on the same assessments). Of course that could be that I was just a better teacher in that format. It’s anecdotal, not data. But my personal experience is hard for me to ignore and has created a personal bias towards small, discussion oriented classes.
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Same here. D24 hates online classes, so all of the schools that brag about having hybrid instruction are a total turn off for her.
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There probably are. But one’s success in getting additional money by going that route will be dependent on a bunch of different things. For example, how much additional financial aid is the student asking for?
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DS and girlfriend are having a rough patch and he’s struggling with focusing on school and it’s finals week. He can’t do his usual workouts (swim and lift) that help him focus because he’s in taper. His swim championships are next weekend. Fortunately, he only has an English paper, Multivariable test and Greek test this week. He finished his policy paper for his history/ political science class and his Latin project. The poor guy is love sick.
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Congratulations!
Wow! Congratulations!
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Oh gosh I really sympathize with you. Mine went through it last month but thankfully they recovered quickly from the argument and made up, but the time in between really wasn’t pleasant. Praying for your boy. Hopefully the busy week will help take his mind off things.
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It feels like there are different categories of applicants when March rolls around, and all mid year reports have been filled.
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The ED accepted bunch enjoying full senioritis
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Those who have secured a strong EA / in-state flagship admission, and awaiting / hoping for a “better school”
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Those without a ticket in hand, who are anxious, but have confidently constructed a reliable safety strategy, and are similarly awaiting / hoping for a better “school”
Best of luck to all in category 2 & 3, including those for whom FA & FAFSA adds another layer of complication
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Based on D23’s board, you have about two weeks until the “will this C get my acceptance rescinded?” posts. And the late April “which college” posts that gave me anxiety.
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Thanks.
100% and I’m encouraging this. Taking D24 on my business trip to St Thomas in a few weeks.
At first, I was thinking about some excuse of why she’ll miss 4 days of school. Then I read the state truancy policy and it allows a student to miss 9 days of school with no excuse necessary if a parent signs off on it.
We’re off to St Thomas - guilt free.
On a side note, we got the official word she’s the salutatorian of her class.
She’ll get to make a speech at graduation.
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So happy D24 got into her top 2 B.F.A. MT programs. Both with scholarships. Just waiting for number 3 . So of her top 5 only was rerouted to a BA from one. Other acceptance was B.F.A. acting. She will tour the top 2 since we already saw DePaul when in Chicago.
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Ha- I just totally re-watched the entire North and South series from the 80’s.
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Phew! Y’all were busy posting this weekend. I am all caught up now. Congratulations for all the acceptances and scholarships 
We were away for a sportsball tournament with D27. D24 held down the fort with the dog and I think really enjoyed some peace and quiet. She is in category 2 of waiting…accepted to all the state schools, all with merit but few with honors colleges which was really the point more than the merit. Sigh. But still waiting for 5 more colleges and her top 2 are in that bunch. March feels like it will be very long.
After the tournament this weekend I was thinking of a parent alternative thread to the “reasons your child crossed off a college” because the behavior of parents from one state made me want to cross all colleges from there off D27’s not even created yet list!
As always, I am so thankful for this thread. 
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