<p>I am not so sure on this. I feel like I would need more details. My sister got in to good colleges that were a few hours away. She decided not to go because she did not want to leave her high school friends. This proved to not be good at all for her. She never got involved in college life. She actually dropped out at one point and returned later to graduate. But in hindsight, it would have been better for her to go further away and make that break from the not-so-great high school friends she had. Many of them were nice enough people, but none of them went to college themselves so she constantly was trying to keep up those relationships and dropped out as a result. She did return later. But if the situation is anything like that, then I would at least take him to visit further away schools and such.</p>