He thought about Pittsburgh, but didn’t love very urban campus. Such a shame, I love that school and city!
At this point, he has some excellent options, but by the way things look financially, the OOS schools are just way too expensive for us since we get zero aid. As they say, don’t look at the school if you can’t afford it. We were just hoping they would have offered something via merit to bring it down a little bit and since he doesn’t have perfect SAT/ACT scores, he hasn’t received anything. The only school to offer anything has been University of Delaware, but that isn’t his top choice.
As far as the weed out process, he is game and ready for the challenge. We happen to know this all too well since his father was weeded out many many years ago as an engineering student at Maryland! lol! Our son is a thousand times more prepared than he was, that is for sure! And our daughter went to Hopkins, so he knows what it takes to succeed. All we can do is support him and cheer him on.