<p>do any students bring parents with them for the programs? i'm flying out and know macalester pays for the airfare, but do parents typically come too or is the program strictly around the accepted students and parents are a minority?</p>
<p>MAC pays for airfare?!</p>
<p>Mac pays for airfare for a selected group of people, I think.</p>
<p>That's great, I got my aid package today and got $0 but Mac pays airfare for some "selected" people. How about bus fare or gas money? Well at least I can scratch Mac off my list.</p>
<p>Selected as in "socioeconomically diverse"(read: poor). </p>
<p>If you have no aid from Mac you're probably really well off anyway.</p>
<p>Thanks for the definition, I certainly hadn't figured that out on my own (sarcasm). Oh yes, we are just rolling in money - a single parent home and middle class. Frankly, even if we had millions I don't know that any education is worth $40,000+ per year.</p>
<p>where do you live? some people live pretty far away and the school probably just wants to encourage them to attend the program.
and probably there are some lower class kids with large family</p>
<p>I agree with the last part of your post though. higher ed. cost nowadays is insane.</p>
<p>I live about 450 miles away from Mac but never had any intention of attending the admitted student weekend. I can't since my sport is in season and we have games. My mom is actually going to Minnesota to talk to the aid office, we will see if it makes a difference. There are some crazy things about our situation.</p>
<p>I don't know where I want to go to college, there is no definite first choice so it's okay if Mac doesn't work out.</p>