Quick question@Parents

<p>I live betwixt Ann Arbor and Detroit, 20 minutes from both. I have iffy chances at Michigan and State so I am looking at other schools with decent business and engineering schools. No other schools in LP Michigan offer the name recognition or strength of program I am looking for and thus I decided to look outside of Michigan. I have visited MSU, Michigan, UMD and UToledo on my own so far and saw Loyola Chicago with my mother. Now this will most likely be the ONLY large college trip we can go on. Also and all are correct about my mom wishing me to stay in state after college-She constantly talks about these government jobs opening up around the area and how it great it is to work for the government(she works for IRS). And yes she is connected and up and about around the area, going to DSO concerts, connected with friends. And we have no other close family in the Midwest other than in Chicago and the huge clump in Michigan. Also its 3 hours Drive time rather than 3 hours flight time.</p>

<p>Yes she has requested a sheet of information of each and every place I want to go which I have made and given to her.</p>

<p>Minnesota is 11 hours by car however and thats all she references. And yes I realize my chances there are not the greatest either. Financially were in good shape, i can afford 20k-30k/year off hand without loans or work which can add a good 10k or so/year. And she has suggested schools such as Albion and Kalamazoo College which both cost around 30-32k per year before r and b. So i feel its more of a distance thing rather than a cost perspective…</p>

<p>You know, three hours gives you an awful lot of choices (maybe more if you can nudge it to a little more). Your 200-or-so-mile circle includes Toronto, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, maybe Bloomington, Chicago, maybe Urbana Champaign. And of course everywhere in between. There are a lot of good options in there, in every flavor imaginable. How much of a fight do you really need to have?</p>

<p>Maybe check out Western Ontario, in London?</p>

<p>In addition to researching your schools of interest for programs of study and possible financial aide, including scholarships and talking with your mom, is their a close relative who can talk with your mom? A grandmother of grandfather, maybe one of your mother’s brothers or sisters, if she has any?</p>