04.29.08

And this is how it ends….

Posted in COLLEGE at 8:55 pm by Meg

When everything is laid out on the table, Boy was accepted into 10 different schools. With every report coming in saying it was the most competitive/lowest acceptance rates ever for getting into college, he’s done really, really well.

Of the 10 schools, when he started looking closer at them, it quickly came down to the has and the has nots. We aren’t going to cover all of his costs and he doesn’t want to carry a large amount of debt to cover the difference between the offered aid and actual costs.

With his deposit now paid, I figured I’ll tell you where he’s going.

A total of 5 schools offered him scholarships and grants that would allow him to attend for basically the cost of room, board, and books - no tuition. This made them the top contenders.

They were (in terms of distance from home):

Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology - the ‘local’ school only a mile or two away, though he’d have lived in the dorm because Hubby and I both believe in not having kids be commuters.

Indiana University in Bloomington, IN - his safety school and at only a little more than an hour away, fairly close.

Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN - really another safety school, but a little farther away.

Univ. of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania - a chance to get out of state and to a larger city.

Trinity University in San Antonio, TX - a top ranked, small liberal arts school.

IU, Purdue, and UPitt all enrolled him in their honors colleges - very flattering and that opened up some great opportunities for more personal choices.

The other 5 schools included schools that Boy had thought he was really interested in for one reason or another, but not enough for the debt load that would be coming with them.

American University in Washington, DC.

Boston University

Santa Clara University in San Jose, CA

NYU

Bard College upstate from the City (NY)

As I said, the first 5 schools were looking very, very good.

Boy has spent time at Rose, Purdue, and IU and so we visted UPitt and Trinity.

He enjoyed UPitt and was pretty well set that that was the way he was leaning, until we went to Texas last weekend.

He really, really liked Trinity. The campus was great. The university community seemed to encourage involvement and participation (including that he’d have chance to be in plays and take photos for the newspaper) and the dorms are amazing!

He’s made his choice and is very happy with it.

In 4 and a half weeks, he’ll be graduated and our 9 years of homeschooling will be finished.

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