D21 watched the process with S17. She gets the whole money situation, but I still worry! S17 was an average (slightly below??) student, interested in an education major and completely laid back about the whole thing. Ended up picking an in state option completely within budget and it totally happy there.
D21 goes to a different, more competitive high school, filled with 1%’ers. She’s only a sophomore, and she gets the budget issue, but i’m Guessing come senior year when many friends have their pick she will end up feeling short changed because we can’t just let her go wherever she wants. I was one of those kids who applied to Villanova just to see if I could get in - and I did! I was also the kid who got weird looks when my friend’s heard I turned down Villanova for SUNY. We’re going to do our best to work out the NPC’s so D21 doesn’t have the same issue.