Trying to convince parents to let me attend a college out-of-state...

Would it be correct to say that you have only three choices:

  • CMU, $28,000 per year
  • CWRU, $39,000 per year
  • Alabama (Tuscaloosa?), $0 to $14,000 per year, depending on whether "full scholarship" means full tuition or full ride

?

Seems like there is one of two things going on:

  1. Their reason for disliking CMU really is the distance.
  2. Their reason for disliking CMU really is something else that they do not want to tell you (money?).