D is in a similar position and she is not as emotionally tough or independent as others her age so as much as I would love for her to take full tuition scholarship at Bama, I have to accept her decision that she feels she would not be comfortable there. I don’t want to risk putting her in a situation where she burns out or goes into a slump, specially as it is far from home.
That leaves her with either full tuition scholarships at Temple, UMBC, or half-tuition at Pitt. For Engineering I just feel that she’d have more opportunities at Pitt plus she feels excited at the prospect. So even though that’s means $80 over 4 years vs $40k for the others, I guess we’ll figure out a way of making this work.