Would a shy kid struggle at UA? honest advice needed

laralei
Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:48:04 +0000

We are also from PA, and DS also applied to Pitt, for the same reasons.

Pitt offered the worst aid of all the schools DS applied to, so it was a no go. He was also accepted at Temple, also full tuition scholarship.

“I” have been very concerned about UA as well. But, whenever he has been asked he has stated UA. We have been getting nothing but encouragement about his attendance.

I have also asked him to consider Blount, but he is determined he wants his own room. He enjoys doing things w/ his friends, but there are times when he just wants to be alone, he needs it. As DH and I are also like that, I fully appreicate his need for his own room as a refuge in a very large university. As he won’t be able to come home very often, Christmas and spring break only, I think that becomes even more of a necessity.

I am looking at it as an opportunity to expand his social horizons.

Worst case, he hates it after the first year and has to come home, but he won’t know until he tries.