<p>This is a pretty judgmental thread. You don’t know why the OP said the child was admitted to certain schools. Maybe they had likely letters, or had reason to assume the child would be accepted. They wouldn’t be the first family to assume certain correspondence from a college meant they were in. (The acceptance my son received from a college several weeks ago followed by a rapid apology and the explanation that decisions haven’t been made yet is a fine example). It doesn’t automatically follow that they applied ED to several schools. </p>
<p>Did he say full ride when he meant full tuition, or was that a lie? We don’t know. Apparently someone knows, or suspects, ASU only gives certain types of scholarships. But, oh, wait, maybe that’s not strictly true. The OP is pulling a bait and switch, or using us to convince a spouse, or maybe there is no spouse, but a stepparent…You have no way of knowing whether any of that’s true. It’s not appropriate for the OP to assume his child was admitted to a couple of colleges, when he may actually have data indicating the liklihood of it, but it’s okay for posters here to make assumptions about him without pertinent details? And we’re picking on people’s spelling now, are we? Really?</p>
<p>Even if the OP is a child yanking adults’ chains, I’d be hard pressed to say who was more ill-behaved. No, I take that back. I don’t see the children belittling each other in this manner.</p>