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49 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Pretty much every single person who was there yesterday was either the Dean of Admissions (Colorado College, Macalister, Sarah Lawrence) or someone older than me (49) or around my age who was in the office of admissions. I wanted to speak directly with someone from Grinnell as I don't want to fly to Iowa to learn more and they came instead to my area. I wanted my daughter to talk further with both Grinnell and Colorado College so she can make sure she's still wanting to apply to them and feels the same way about them as she did earlier. I also wanted her to see some other options since she liked those two so much. Sure, we could've done all of this from our laptop. I saw value in spending 40 minutes driving to Duncanville to listen to presentations on these schools and to get my questions answered. I wanted her to learn more about how best to become a therapist at these colleges and what options they offer as far as internships and experiences that could aid her on this decision. Had the event been better attended, we probably don't get more than a few minutes with these people. Instead, we got almost 10 minutes with each of the schools she was interested in. This event is going to have me looking into the next virtual open house for Grinnell like my daughter attended on her own. It was pretty valuable to both of us as we had a great 40 minute conversation about colleges on our drive home. 

Thanks for this. I think then we in fact did NOT go to the same type of college fair lol. 

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13 hours ago, midtown said:

Put me in the camp that unless you want to go into a very very tightly networked industry like Wall St; it really doesnt matter where you go to school, relatively speaking.   Especially if your kid has some work ethic and a personality.  My son will end up with zero debt because he's getting free undergrad at Alamo College here and living at home. He wil be able to roll his 529 into his ROTH with an engineering degree from UTSA.  He can spend the remainder of his 529 taking motorcycle mechnic courses because thats his passion.  No AI or robot is going to fix a Ducati. 

 

having a personality <<<< this is very important 

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