@juillet Cost and distance. LA is expensive…period. Going home for holidays is kind of a factor for their distaste of me going so far. Because of my job in retail there is almost no way I could go home for Thanksgiving and I would have to plan very diligently to make it home for Christmas on time so there’s that. UNCC has some great majors, I get that. And you’re right, there’s no specific major to lead me to urban planning but USC’s PPD major is everything I want. I’m not looking for just a piece of paper. I really want to learn and have a passion for what I want to do and surround myself with people who feel the same. I’ve been to UNCC to tour it, I’ve been to events there, etc…there’s just something about it that seems unattractive to me. Maybe it’s the fact that I have actually lived 10 minutes from it my entire life. I’ve already went to community college and done the whole boring commuting and staying at home thing. Part of it is just me wanting something new and UNCC is so blah to me. If she does get approved then okay. She’s not against helping me out. She wants it to be clear that if I do rack up debt she won’t be the one paying it back.