Between my twins, they have closed in on 8 possible choices between them… I really like 7 of them.
Yes.
Absolutely. I saved $35K a year by him going public instead of private.
My parents are both extremely involved with their 2 cents.
Most importantly, they try to guide, but not influence. They let me know from the begining that it would be my call, no matter the school. But they did push for schools with need base grants and scholarships.
Yes.
But I liked all the ones he applied to, so as long as he got into at least one, I would have been happy.
I’ll tell you after the first year! But so far, yes; I think he picked a college that is an excellent “fit” for him, and I think he will have a wonderful four years.
Yes. For number 1, I chose all of the colleges he applied to (two of which he’d visited in connection with high school debate competitions). After being admitted, he did not like one of the colleges after first visiting it. The college he chose to attend was one that he’d never visited until “admitted students day.” That was my own #1 choice as well.
For number 2, I liked the one she chose to attend. With one exception, all of the schools on her application list were ones that she chose to apply to. She got into all the colleges to which she applied.
I like them for them. If I were going to college, I’d have picked a very different school for me.
I liked D1’s choice, thought it was a good fit for her. I LOVED D2’s college, and miss it now that she has graduated. I spent a surprising amount of time on campus for various reasons (like traveling to her for Thanksgiving every year because it was just the 2 of us and I could, coming in a day early and taking her out to dinner with friends, then hanging out on campus while she had Wed am classes). I wish I had a good reason to go back. 
It sounds like you like 7 out of 8 and are wondering what happens if they like #8. I have to say that my feelings about S18s choices evolved from the time of our tours to the final decision. I would not have guesses he would end up where he did but we are all very happy about it.
We’ve got the list down to 9 options. I’m not crazy about the super safety but my son likes it well enough and it’s only on the list as a super safety if nothing else comes through. Everything else I would be very happy to see him accepted.
I’m thrilled to death, both with the school my son originally chose and with the school my daughter will be attending in 2 weeks.
He only spent a year there before deciding to transfer back home to community college so he could join the fire department. But he learned so much that first year! He went to Neumann University in PA, and it was absolutely the right place for him.
She’ll be attending Plymouth State in NH. It has that same caring, people oriented vibe that Neumann has-- a place for my child to live and learn and grow for 4 years. I hope she continues to love it as much as she does right now.
I had some schools that I loved after the visits that DD decided not even to apply. Kept reminding myself it was her process, not mine. She’s going to Purdue Honors College which was her favorite all along. I still feel like it’s “too big” but HC makes it a smaller community and so far things are going smoothly (she got into all of her classes and housing), plus communication has been outstanding. That said, if it was my choice, I would have probably chosen Lehigh ; )
The schools each S chose were right for them. They would not have been right for each other (i.e DS#1s school was perfect for him, DS#2’s was similarly. perfect fo him, but I don’t think either would have been as happy had they attended the other school).
I love my D’s school and more importantly love it for her. Like @intparent, I will miss going to the campus after she graduates. They do a great job of making parents feel like part of the community and the campus is so gorgeous, I love walking around there.
I did a lot of researching of schools for my son and passed along suggestions to him. With his choice of major (film), a lot of super-competitive and unaffordable choices were out there. But I found one school that had a program that was perfect for him and that gave (at that time) enormous merit scholarships. I had never heard of it, but I passed along the suggestion to him.
We visited a gazillion schools and his reaction to each was a big “meh.” But when we visited “my secret choice,” he fell in love with everything about it and ended up dropping his application to one of the “name” schools.
It was perfect for him and perfect for his parents.
Maybe this sounds unreasonable, but we would not have let her apply to a college we didn’t like. If we didn’t like it, there would have been a good reason.
Agree with @Lindagaf
Our kids applied to colleges we liked.
But…we also remembered…the KID was going to college, not the parents.
I can’t imagine a reason I would NOT have liked a college my kids wanted to apply to.
@AbsDad so…why don’t you like college 8, and what will you do if one of your twins decides this is THE college for them?
As a follow-up, as we helped our S’s with the college search, we liked all the options they considered. Truth be told, I liked DS#1’s school more than DS#2’s school for a few different reasons (DS#2’s charging us $100 to clean the already disgusting carpet and charging everyone for something someone did in the stairwell still sticks in my craw 10 years later) but all in all, we liked both schools.
Absolutely with #1, less enthusiastic about 2, love #3’s transfer choice.