@LucieTheLakie Thanks so much for your comment. Yes, she’s good academically and she chose Brandywine to save cost for the first 2 yrs. We didn’t anticipate PSU would give out any merit scholarship, thus to safely cover all 4 yr cost, we decide to have her stay 2 year locally. But now, since PSU did provide her some scholarship, staying local campus for 2 yrs didn’t seem to save too much(`~20K). So you think it’s better to spend the money on PSU engineering, than go to a lower tier school then use the money for graduate school.