Thanks so much for all of the great suggestions. She won’t have a car but will have free bus service she might need to learn how to use. We love SW too but no direct flights. She’s pretty comfortable flying so I think she can get herself through an airport. Sadly no direct flights and we’ve had multiple experiences with delayed or canceled flights.
We plan to open an account with a bank that is on campus and has a branch right by our house as well. H works for a bank but no branches out that way and we don’t want to deal with transferring between banks.
We just took a load of her stuff out to store with her sis. The rest we will send with her 2 suitcases on SW or have shipped. It’s coming up fast!
One thing we just encountered was medical consent now that she’s 18. I know I can have her sign a consent with student health but I’m now researching what to do for insurance or local health providers for emergencies. Luckily BCBS has network dr available but it was a bit of a hassle to coordinate a recent minor medical situation when we were all traveling in different areas. Above her level of handling independently at this point.
Thankfully she loves her college as much in person as she did in pics and got to meet her roommate while in town. She did not get her first choice dorm but it will be fine, despite her dramatic texts that life was over and she was quitting college. LoL