<p>We’re staying Sunday night and helping our daughter move in on Monday. Then we’ll leave sometime in the afternoon. My husband is a teacher and doesn’t like taking off so early in the year. So one day is enough. But, yeah…we’ll stretch it out as long as my daughter needs us…which is probably not too much! </p>
<p>Like nutellaella said, sooner or later kids will have to learn to navigate on their own. When I think back at my *now *34 year old daughter and how independent she was, I’m amazed she did so much on her own at college. She didn’t learn to drive until she was in her early 20s, so she rode her bike everywhere. Opened a bank account. Found the closest stores. She and her roommate decided to live in student apartments instead of a traditional dorm. So they had to buy food and sundries on a regular basis. We supplied them with the basics at first. Then they were on their own! My daughter quickly found a job on campus and the rest was paid in student loans. Sheesh. What DID we do?? ;)</p>
<p>I’ll admit, our younger daughter has always been a bit more coddled than her grown sisters, so she’ll have the more traditional dorm send-off. And, we’re footing the bill.</p>
<p>I’m going to tell my mom this, better yet show her.
Because she’s planning on staying until wednesday… NO.
I don’t want her to!
I should be able to figure things out on my own, especially because I’ll have my car.</p>
<p>^ LOL, yes tell mom you love her and all, but it won’t be necessary to stay that long. It’ll be tough for you to hang out and get to know your new roommates with the parental unit around.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is a wealth of information. She went to a college presentation last night. The speaker told her about finding out statistics that colleges do not necessarily publish. All you have to do is to google (college name common data set). I have provided the CalPoly URL above. I wish that I had known about this site when S was applying for colleges. </p>
<p>She said that The state funds the different campuses differently. UCS: Berkeley receives the most funds followed by UCLA and UCSD. In the CSU system, CP received the most funds, followed by SDSU. This is one reason why those campuses have higher graduating rates in 4 years.</p>
<p>You have got to look at this site! It is amazing, the wealth of information that is listed!</p>
But, yeah…we’ll stretch it out as long as my daughter needs us…which is probably not too much! </p>