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<p>For heaver’s sake, why? It’s got a program in her major (which not all that many schools do). It’s affordable. There’s no doubt she can get in. She’s been there and loves it. College search completed! She can get on with enjoying her senior year in high school and pitying all her classmates who are consumed by the college application process.</p>
<p>I’m with annasdad on this. My niece from Alabama wanted to go to U. of Alabama. It was the only school she applied to. She was accepted last September. No worries the rest of her senior year, which was a great one for her.</p>
<p>Georgia tech!!! I’m not sure how good your credentials are, but GA tech is an amazing engineering school.</p>
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Yes, and for a Mississippi resident, compared to Mississippi State, $23,870 vs. $5,151 tuition and fees - more than four times as much.</p>
<p>I have visited other schools, Samford, Birmingham southern, UAB, UA and I’ve been to Atlanta a lot, so I am somewhat familiar with Georgia tech. I live in Alabama though, not Mississippi, so either way it is out of state, I just know that I can get instate tuition at MSU because of my scores. My dad wants me to apply to more even though I’ll get in to MSU, so I might try Georgia tech and Texas A&M</p>
<p>Alabama offers some good scholarships, especially for engineering students:
[Scholarships</a> - Undergraduate Students - The College of Engineering - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://eng.ua.edu/undergraduate/scholarships/]Scholarships”>Scholarships – College of Engineering | The University of Alabama)</p>
<p>I say apply to more than one just in case you never know…</p>
<p>First, to the OP … it sounds like you’ve checked out your options … so an EA or ED application to MSU would work for me as your parent.</p>
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Why, because I have no issue with letting my kids pick their schools but I do want them to have a pretty good understanding of their options. The downside of visiting only one place and deciding that’s the place for me would be something like visiting a friend at another school and thinking, I like my school but this is even better. Pretty simple actually … if possible major decisions made by a educated consumer. (and in this case the OP is an educated consumer).</p>
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<p>As a tuition paying dad this sounds like an amazingly compelling argument ;)</p>
<p>Apply to two other places and then go to MSU.</p>
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<p>The CollegeBoard Site says that Miss State has Rolling Admissions with notification beginning 9/1.</p>
<p>If so, get your app into the school as early as possible. If you’re accepted, and 100% sure that you want to go there, you’re done!!</p>
<p>Another plan – apply early, then limit further applications to ‘dream schools’. If they come through with an acceptable fin aid package, fantastic!! If not, you still have your top choice.</p>
<p>It’s not necessarily a bad idea–you can only go to one school, after all. But I’d encourage you to look around a bit more. My bf applied only to one school as well, a school that was a great fit for his interests and finances. But he wishes he’d looked around a bit more–not because he’s unhappy with his choice or because he would have gone anywhere else, but because he would have made a more active decision to attend.</p>
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<p>If MSU really is the top choice, then why apply anywhere else if the OP has an early acceptance with sufficient financial aid from MSU in hand?</p>
<p>Additional schools are only worth applying to if they are more desirable to the student than the safeties (any early acceptances with sufficient financial aid become safeties).</p>
<p>Many HS seniors find that their top choice in April of Senior year is not the same school as was the top choice the Prior September.</p>
<p>So, unless OP is 100% certain that Miss State will remain her top choice, it’s probably worth making an application to a few other schools just in case there is a change of heart.</p>
<p>Yes, applying to one school is perfectly okay. Just make sure you apply to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.</p>