<p>Binghamton is definitely the better school academically, but WVU will give him the better overall “college experience.” With his stats, he would most likely qualify for honors classes. The only thing I would look into is the career services at both schools - the number and types of companies that come to interview, the number of internships because, at the end of the day, you want him to have a job after college. With that being said, I would let him go to WVU - you don’t want to force him to go to a school he doesn’t want to attend.</p>
<p>Let him go to wvu if he breaks up with the girl, he will be fine lol there’s plenty of chicks at wvu.</p>
<p>Since my son has not dated so far (knock on wood, or whatever I have got near my computer keyboard), I can’t talk from the experience. </p>
<p>No offense intended to OP, just one question: What if, your son the the dreaded GF are really made for each other, getting married and are happy for the rest of their lives? Again, I do not have an answer. Things happen for a reason.</p>
<p>^Yes, one always has to be careful what one says, lest the gf turn into a wife who will be certain you are the MIL from he**! :eek:</p>
<p>^^^What mommusic said^^^^</p>
<p>During his sophomore year in high school, our son dated a young lady that we did not particularly like. We were relieved when they broke up the day before junior year (August 2006).</p>
<p>Flash forward to now. That young lady is our daughter-in-law and mother to our grandson. She has matured and is an amzing wife and mother–and the daughter that I never had. Never could have imagined that five years ago.</p>
<p>Weigh your words carefully.</p>
<p>I agree. People change. The young lady may or may not be mature enough now to be judged as a perfect GF, she may turn into a perfect wife and DIL down the road. That is why , as parents, we should always provide our kids with general guidance and leave them alone. In fact, there is very little we can do anyway…Just don’t want to be on the wrong side of the history.</p>
<p>My younger D made a similar decision in a way. She stayed closer to home for a boy, rather than go farther away to a better school. She is very strong willed, but also has the personality that made going away a little scary for her. I bit my tongue and let her stay closer to home. If I insisted she go to the better choice, and she crashed and burned, it would always and forever by my fault. The boy was out of the picture before the start of school. By Thanksgiving she actually said, “you were right mom…” That took a lot for her to admit that. She hates to be wrong. And academically rarely is. She has made a success of her current location. She graduated HS with her AA, so transferring is not an option IMHO, so she will stay put and stick it out and hopefully end up at the vet school of her dreams. Time will tell. She did learn a valuable lesson about looking at the entire picture, and having an open mind when listening to advice.</p>
<p>Stay near home at a less competitive school will get her a better chance to get all A’s. With near 4.0 GPA and good test scores, she will have a better chance to get into vet school of her choice. It is interesting to see how life works…Things will pan out the way it mean to be.</p>
<p>From the perspective of a teenage who is trying very hard to not think of her significant other while deciding to go 1000+ miles away:
Maybe you could make it seem a little bit less like going to Binghamton will end his relationship. Even though it probably won’t last, treat it like they’re “meant to be” and you know that and so you’re not trying to use a college choice to break them up. Talk about how maybe they can visit, see each other when they come home for breaks, etc. Because it’s getting to the time of the year when all us seniors feel like we’re leaving everyone we know and never ever seeing them again. It’s scary. Just take that out of the equation for him so he can really make a decision that’s good for him.</p>