Should tuition be a factor in college visits?

northeastmom
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:53:37 +0000

I agree with NSM. Also, I spoke with my son about not falling in love with any one school. I told him to only apply to schools where he feels he could be happy, and make it work for him. He did that. We waited for all financial offers to be on the table in April, before our son decided where he was going. He had 10 acceptances, but 5 we felt were not workable for our family. We let our son pick from 5 of his acceptances (and those were not all the same cost to us, btw). He was happy to pick from the 5 schools. In fact it took him a bit of time to pick between his 2 top choices.

Make sure that you find a financial safety. Perhaps that will be your instate public university, I don’t know.