<p>Great question but hard to answer. I think my kids love their schools but probably would have headed for better weather if I would have said go anywhere you wish. They were told up front that we would not pay for them to go to another state’s public university and pay OOS tuition unless they got a great scholarship that made it comparable to instate tuition. </p>
<p>Yes. The one we both favored was about twice the cost of the one he went to and it was just not doable for us.</p>
<p>Yes, my son would have chosen a different college, but the choice was his. He earned the right to attend the best college he was accepted into, and we would have tried to make it happen for him, but we were greatly relieved when he decided a less-expensive option. This will give him other opportunities (e.g. unpaid internships, foreign study, et al.), without bankrupting us. He wants to go to law school, also, and wisely realized that we probably could not contribute to that if he had chosen the college that cost over $60k per year instead of the one that costs under $30k. He seems very happy where he is. He liked this college all along, and it would have been on his short-list regardless of price. He might not have settled for it had he been accepted at one of his top three “reach” schools, but he did choose it over another school that he loved. </p>