<p>Finances are a personal matter, so if the finances are equal…I don’t see any problem with your son making an emotional choice for one school or the other. If he is excited to somewhere, the odds are better that he will do well. By many objective measures, rankings, recruiter preferences, student body, the schools are comparable enough that you won’t make any startling quality difference discoveries. For what it’s worth, the food at Va Tech is pretty awesome. For a young man, that is not a trivial thing.</p>