@CrazyMomof3 She is leaning toward UCONN, with Purdue in close second place (though it is a geographic outlier and will be a little more expensive because the scholarship was smaller and the higher cost of travel). At UCONN she got offered the STEM Honors with a scholarship which was a complete and pleasant surprise to us–we actually thought the UCONN might be out of reach financially too (it is expensive for out of state). Both WPI and RPI were on the wish list pending enough scholarship, and the number of emails that she got from RPI begging her to apply and advertising their amazing merit scholarships lead us to believe that she might get a big one. She did get a Leadership Scholarship of almost 19,000 per year at RPI, but the remaining balance is still a big stretch for us. Haven’t received the letter yet from WPI to learn if she got any scholarships, but given that my daughters very thoroughly prepared application and supplements were totally overlooked until last week AFTER the March 20 decision day, we are extremely doubtful that she even made it on any list for consideration for the Foisie. Private schools just seem to be out of reach for us financially even with some merit scholarship.
We live overseas but are from New England originally. Since our daughter is going to be in the US for college on her own, we wanted her near family in the event of an emergency or whatever. I have two nephews in Connecticut, a stepbrother in Framingham, MA, several cousins in Boston and RI, and our parents live in Maine. She has never really lived in the states except for vacations, so she is going to have a lot of culture shock to contend with, not to mention adjusting to the weather–though she is really looking forward to seasons and winter.