My apologies if I am rehashing; my brain just doesn’t want to absorb five pages. We live outside of Boston, so lots of different types of colleges nearby to see. My S17 is a SLOW decision maker so sophomore year we did the city vs. suburban vs. college town vs. rural search to figure that out. So we didn’t see “Brown” we saw a semi urban school, not UVM but a school in a college town, etc. He figured out he liked urban first and college town second. We then talked budget…we talked about “net cost” versus list price and he understood that in the end price would be a factor.
Both of my kids are ending up at school in Montreal. Pricing is less than in state tuition and the education is, in my opinion, superior. The cost advantage is starting to go away. But Canada has worked for our family.