School me on College!!

[Augie91]

Our oldest daughter will be a senior in high school this coming year.  We took her on her first college visit a week ago.  For those of you that have/had kids in college do you have any tidbits of useful info about the search for a college and the eventual choice process which hopefully involves getting as much scholarships as possible?!

We have another visit lined up.  I'm thinking she will have a handful of visits and then make a choice before the end of 2021.

[bdutton]

https://www.scholarships.com/financial-a...olarships/

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ETA: Its probably too late to pile up with community service hours which are required for many scholarships.

[Stank Delicious]

No matter where she goes, drill it into her brain never to accept an open drink from anyone or leave her drink unattended.

[Mexas Joe]

What's her major or what does she want to do?

Not to be a douche but there are so many useless degrees out there that she's bettor off going straight to the work force instead of being burdened with student loan debt depending.

Employers are Hungry for applicants with some good common sense and work ethic. And they are willing to pay. Trust me.

[Vagus]

No matter where she goes, drill it into her brain never to accept an open drink from anyone or leave her drink unattended.

This. Once at a bar there was a lot of moving around. We lost track of our drinks for the briefest period of time and someone did the whole bunch. Fortunately, the alpha strain don't go down easy, so all that happened was for hilarity to ensure. But, most people would've died or been in some seriously compromising situations. Helped that we were in a group.

[Augie91]

I hear you, I know tons of folks who racked up debt and now they have jobs that did not even require a degree. She's interested in mechanical engineering, biomedical to be even more specific.

[Mexas Joe]

Sounds like a winn-ah to me.

[Augie91]

We've been saving in 529s for our kids since birth, hope it will be enough to cover costs. We, fortunately, won't qualify for any financial aid. I hope our kids get plenty of scholarships for their hard work!!

[Mexas Joe]

Any bennies is she claims another race or gender on her application?

[TxBrewer]

We've been saving in 529s for our kids since birth, hope it will be enough to cover costs.  We, fortunately, won't qualify for any financial aid.  I hope our kids get plenty of scholarships for their hard work!!

When we were talking to academic advisors about scholarships, probably because the wife worked for the school, she was pretty honest about her chances.   She was white, with both parents alive so so she was out of the running for about half.  Since she didn't have a tragic story about her life she wouldn't have that to write abowhich would hurt her chances as well. 

She was able to find a few small ones that were mainly one year but it helped.    

Like others said remind her 80% of the guys on campus are ass holes who can't be trusted, don't leave your drink or take one.   The other 20% are gay. 

See if the schools do student only visits, let's face it the parent kid tours are a sales pitch to mom and dad, a visit where they spend time with students even if it is half a day let's them see what student life is like.    That's what convinced our daughter that the school was right for her.