When we lived in WF, friends were always making college visits with their kids. That's something we never did. Our kids were raised as Tigers and it was always understood that that's where they would go. Oldest just graduated, youngest just finished first semester.
Tell your oldest daughter it's LSU or you ain't paying for it. Sorry about your youngest but there may be hope. There's lots of good beauty schools and truck driving academies around.
I don't think I'm willing to pay out-of-state tuition for LSU, just saying... She wants to look at Oklahoma State this summer, and they offer some decent incentives to Texas students that save on tuition (Arkansas does, too). Tons of Plano kids go to both of those schools. She wants to be an elementary school teacher, so I also want her to take a look at Stephen F. Austin or Texas State in San Marcos--which turn out a lot of teachers, and she'd graduate certified in Texas. Plus, Texas State has an actual drill team, so that might appeal to her.
As I said in the previous post, I don't think I'll be paying out-of-state tuition for LSU. My younger daughter wants to go to an art school in Manhattan and have a career in set and stage design in NYC--or LA (she likes the big cities on both coasts.) I think she'll do just fine--but she WILL have to get a scholarship for that Manhattan art school idea to fly. Fortunately, a number of kids from Plano each year do get scholarships to art schools in NYC. One of my former students just received a scholarship to Pratt School of Design in Brooklyn, so there is hope.
Yes, it's ridiculous. But in Texas, the tuition for A & M and UT is similar to out-of-state, which is also just not happening. Besides, one has to be in the top 8% of his/her graduating class to be guaranteed admittance to either of those schools, and trying to be top 8% at Plano Senior High would be a fool's errand. A student who wants that has to devote an extreme amount of time and energy into studying and taking all AP classes. My kiddos aren't going to do that, and I wouldn't want them to. Life is too short to spend it studying... The Plano kids in the top 8% generally go to the Ivy League or Stanford or military academies anyway. They aren't going to Texas schools.
Absolutely never, which I really appreciate. And by the way - I loved your old signature. My mental picture of you is the guy on the Zig Zag shirt I wore in the 70s. And that's kind of a compliment in a odd way. Lot of good memories with brother Zig - which is all I would use. For about a year around 73 I tried to look like him but I could never get my mustache right. Sucked when I had to be clean shaven for work.
Two of my daughters went to UT - in 02 and '05. I don't think they could get in now. And it wasn't that much less than when my 3rd daughter went to LSU.
Don't your parents still live in Louisiana? Use their address as your daughters address and pay in-state at LSU
