- First you must find out if “safety” is the real reason. Sometimes it is because the school is more expensive (but not in your case), farther away, ???
- If it is safety, try to get accurate info on both colleges.
- Sometimes the “I won’t pay for it” is a bluff. Sometimes it is not. So you might have to go to a different college to get them to pay for it. Or you might bluff back and say "Well, I have now found that UGA does not have the underwater basketweaving program I want, so I guess I won’t go to college this year. "
- Show your parents you take their concerns seriously…do get the book “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin DeBecker from your library and read it. Read and show your parents the safety options that GT has (http://studentlife.gatech.edu/content/campus-safety).
Thank you guys for all your suggestions. I did get my parents to agree to go to a campus tour to see what they’re dealing with and talk with other students and such. Hopefully, that will help convince them that it’s fine for me to attend. Thanks for all your advice, this calmed me a bit. Still, this whole situation didn’t help the already extremely stressful time period right now. I think I can convince them, especially with some help from other students who know what they’re talking about. I think they’re just afraid since I’m the youngest of the family, and they’ll be “losing me”. I don’t know, but they’ve cooled off a bit from their initial scare.
Glad to hear that things have calmed down in your household.
For your own peace of mind, however, I would recommend that you consider contacting your ‘safety’ school via email, and let them know that you’ve changed your mind and would like to be able to keep them in consideration.
Ask them directly if you can reverse your decision, and request that they reinstate your offer.
While you hopefully will be able to win your parents over to seeing GT for all that it is and not need to consider your safe school, for your own mental health in the weeks to come, it could be a way to allow you to be a lot less anxious.
@summerts , probably not worth my time to respond to your uninformed comment, but… A student cannot just take out $30k in loans annually, or whatever it will cost. The government only gives a student about $5k a year. Even if this student slaved away working, there’s no way he could come up with that money on his own.
^ The OP said he was in-state and qualified for Zell. So that’s a net tuition of around $12.5K - $5K = $7.5K/year. Anyway, his parents were bluffing and so just a little drama.
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The OP seems to have reached at least a temporary solutions with his parents.