Re: colleges


Subject: Re: colleges
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 08:25:15 EST


On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:02:50 -0700 Patti Larrabee
<Patti.Larrabee@hsc.utah.edu> wrote:

> Matt,
> At 15 she is considering Boston University and New England Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory. I would be interested in how other parents, teenagers, academics deal with someone like this. I keep telling her she will need a huge scholarship and she feels that will not be a problem. Also, we live in Park City, Utah. Still a small town as much as we try to be Aspen. She attends a very small private school. She can't even read a bus schedule and she wants me to put her on a plane to Boston?!? Get real here. Come on my little teenage listers. Are you all like this?
> Patti

Ugh, nasty US school system. I'm glad things have not yet detioriated
so far in England that how expensive a university is has to be a
primary consideration. I balk at having to pay £1000 a year, and that
is means tested so not everyone has to pay.

That said, don't stamp on your daughters grandiose plans, Patti. At 15
I was frightened to even get on a train, by the time I was sixteen i
was flying to Germany all by myself :-). Let her try for the huge
scholarships first, if they don't materialise then she can downsize her
ideas. Or, marry her to an Englishman, then she can go to Oxford for a
mere £1000 a year!

Love, Lucy-Ruth

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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk

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