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Originally posted by Pale Horse:
Thanks for the info. I know they have housing on campus specifically for the students in the nursing program but I have no idea if there is enough. She’s only a Jr in high school so I haven’t spent a ton of time looking at housing. I leave a lot of that to her and her mother as both are pretty good at stuff like that so I trust their opinion.

However I still appreciate the info. When she goes to college her mother and I (we are divorced) both plan on moving near Tampa so it’s possible she could live with one of us too. I spend about 250 days a year on the road for work anyway so she could live with me and basically have her own place most of the year.

I got really fortunate with my son going to FL Poly. He had no problem getting housing his freshman year and has already secured next years housing. Their dorms are very nice too and everything is in walking distance.

My wife went up there to help my son find an apartment, it's her forté as well. USF was supposed to tear down the dorm my son was in his freshman year and two others as they were the oldest, from the 60s I think, last fall. They're supposed to be building something bigger and better. I don't know how special nursing housing works, but hear their program is good. My dad goes to Moffit for cancer treatments and there's a lot of students with internships there.

Each university handles housing differently. FSU is a lottery, but if you have a roommate group, one kid has #1 and the rest are 4,000 whatever, the whole group is #1. UF is first come first serve and you can apply for housing right after you've submitted an application to the school itself.

USF is also first come first serve, but you have to be admitted before you can apply for housing. I thought you had to pay the enrollment fee because I didn't scroll down past 6 paragraphs of junk to the where it said you didn't have to pay the enrollment fee to apply for housing. Fortunately, he got housing.

The facts speak from themselves. When you cannot admit failure you resort to pathetic personal attacks. Is that light hearted enough for you?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
The facts speak from themselves. When you cannot admit failure you resort to pathetic personal attacks. Is that light hearted enough for you?

I have no clue what you are talking about.

Sounds like NYU would be quite the change in scenery from where you're at. A whole new world of sorts. Congrats to you both. If that's her choice, and it seems like it probably is, she'll have a blast. She can always transfer to a FL school if NYU ends up being a bad fit. Like you said, options.

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
I’m 25 or so miles from Ann Arbor. I avoid going there any way possible.

I'm 20 miles due north of there. I despise going to A2 for any reason. Both of my older sisters went to Michigan and both had their minds totally corrupted. Another reason I hate that place.

I have two sons that live in New York, and my wife and I visit fairly often. For me at least the cliche is true- it’s a great place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there. It’s probably a pretty great city to go to school.

One son actually lives in the West Village, very close to NYU’s main campus. I’d be happy to volunteer him as an emergency contact, or just to show her around the neighborhood. He’s soon to be 35, so old enough that he wouldn’t try to date her.

Congrats on her success!

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Originally posted by trapper189:

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Originally posted by r0gue:
I'll never understand the approach to college selection where high school students get to "pick" anywhere they want to go.

She's wanted to go to NYU since the 7th ot 8th grade. I have no idea how that came about, but we had a good conversation about the pitfalls, but at no point did I discourage her from her goal. Instead, I told her what she needed to do to make it happen and encouraged her to do her best.

She set a goal, worked hard for 5 to 6 years to achieve that goal, and did it.

Tell me, what don't you understand about that?

Kudos to her for sure! But the part I don't understand is the same part (as you mentioned above) that you don't. The part where it seems a random something or other puts a thought in a kids mind that (in this case) she wanted to go to NYU. Nothing personal dude, your daughter sounds awesome. But unless you'd visited that college by 7th/8th grade and she's learned something special that set her in motion, I'm assuming she saw a movie or something that it featured prominently? Who knows..

It's not uncommon though, and that was my point. A kid in Pittsburgh wants to go to the University of Southern California. A kid in southern CA wants to go to Penn State. It's odd to me is all. And generally inefficient and costly.

Of course, sometimes it's a sports or athletic scholarship deal. In your daughter's case, getting scholarships that greatly defrays the costs, that's fantastic! Still, many kids are racking debt for out of state schools because they liked the weather, or the Hogwarts feel of the campus, or the sports team...

Again, your daughter is awesome. Her dedication is admirable and you're a great dad for supporting her.

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She's wanted to go to NYU since the 7th ot 8th grade. I have no idea how that came about, but we had a good conversation about the pitfalls, but at no point did I discourage her from her goal. Instead, I told her what she needed to do to make it happen and encouraged her to do her best.

She set a goal, worked hard for 5 to 6 years to achieve that goal, and did it.

Tell me, what don't you understand about that?

In the process, she's earned an AA degree from the local community college while in high school. She's working at Publix and saving money. She's been admitted to the two best public universities in Florida. She's earned scholarships such that she could finish a 4 year degree at one of those universities for $4,000 a year including room and board.

Congrats, trapper189.
She sounds like an amazing young woman.
I just hope she doesn't catch the woke virus in New York. It's in the water, or air or something.

I see your point now r0gue.

With oldest our son, it was a visit to his 7th grade science class by the teacher's volcanologist brother that planted the seed. Forget that he's born and raised in Florida, forget that it's very small pool of jobs available, but why can't my kid be a volanologist. We discussed it, mapped out a path, and he's studying geology at the University of South Florida which actually has a volcanology group. I learned that when I asked for and received excellent advice here on the forum.

We live in a particularly boring county in Florida if you aren't into watersports, fishing, kayaking, hunting, or general outdoor activities. It's not a shock that my youngest son has vacillated between watermelon farmer, charter boat captain, rancher, and fireman.

Then there's my daughter in the middle. I can't explain where the NYU seed came from. I can tell you that everything my daughter wanted to do at an early age (dance, gymnastics, musical theater, etc.) required driving to other counties, that never stopped, and is true to this day. There is nothing here for my daughter, so I'm not surprised some of the schools on her original list.

That list was updated on page 2 and it seems that everyone who has posted after the update didn't bother to read it and missed the whole point of the update. I have an 86 yo father that suffers from grumpy old man syndrome and becomes an asshole when we talk about what my kids want to do. For the life of him he cannot possibly say anything nice. I deal with it because he's my Dad.

For anyone that posted after my update:

If you looked at my update, watched my daughter's little video, and your subsequent post was the best you could do, then I hope you were offended by my grumpy old man comment. That was me trying to politely say: FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!

If you didn't read the update, didn't see the video, and were offended by my grumpy old man comment, then I make no apologies but I'm only mildly annoyed. The thread title says "Updated", the first line of the first post says the update is on page 2, the actual update is huge and easily found by scanning page 2, so if you skipped to the end, then that's on you.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Congrats, trapper189.
She sounds like an amazing young woman.
I just hope she doesn't catch the woke virus in New York. It's in the water, or air or something.

Thank you. I hope she continues to set the example and some of the woke crowd wakes up. The red states taking over the blue states has to start somewhere, right?

One thing I've stressed with my kids is that they don't check any boxes which means they have to be that much stronger than the candidates that do. They see this in the public high school and they see it with the scholarship, internship, and on-campus job opportunities. The nice thing about DEI is that it's blatantly obvious.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Temple Terrace must’ve gone downhill since I lived there 20 years ago.

I lived there briefly and walked to Temple Terrace Elementary. Of course lots of changes can happen in 65 years.

trapper, check your email when you have a few minutes.

Trapper congrats! The lesson learned here is that she set a goal, went to war to win the battle and won the battle. A massive accomplishment for sure. I just watched my daughter do the same and she got an early admit to her #1. (Still waiting on some decisions to make sure it is final.) I am incredibly proud of her. While other kids are screwing off my daughter was laser focused on one thing and she brought it home. Sounds like yours was as well.

Yes, she ships out of town for the next 4 years and I hate that, but the opportunities that she has made for herself through work have been amazing. I know if I leave this earth tomorrow, she will be ok in life. I have some peace with that, and I'm sure you do as well.

My dad taught Computer Science at NYU late 60's to
early 70's. Great school, and Greenwich Village is a great neighborhood [despite NYC]. She made a good choice.

Kudos to your daughter for her accomplishments and focus, and to you, trapper, for supporting her on this journey as best as you can.

I am going through very similar with my daughter who is a senior in HS.

A few of her teachers over the last two years have lit a fire under her ass in the earth sciences, natural sciences, and animal sciences.

She applied to 10 or so colleges in the northeast and out west that have good reputations in these areas, but had UVM picked as her #1 choice for their zoology program (and other aspects of the University that she liked).

She got accepted to most of them, so far, including UVM, with good to meh (UVM) scholarship offers, but she is very strongly leaning to UVM for the program, even tho it will be more costly than some of the others.

If she were not as enthusiastic as she is about UVM’s program, then it would be very likely that her pick would take her elsewhere.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Unlike my daughter, I didn't have my shit together in high school. I went to community college because community college is for people that don't have their shit together and/or can't afford the 4 year university to begin with. Unlike many of my community college classmates, I got my shit together, transferred to a 4 year school, double majored in finance and accounting, and got the degree no body cares about anymore. In the process of getting to the point where nobody cares about my degree, I saved money in 529 investment plans when each of my kids was born so that they could go to whatever universities they could get into. It worked.

I had to laugh as this was my EXACT situation. The only difference is I double majored in Finance and Economics. I transferred roughly 57 credits or so into the 4 year university where I got my degree from. We also have thrown a TON of money into 529 accounts for my kids.