My DD has been accepted to the engineering schools at Clemson and Bama and to the honors college for both. While originally she was gung ho BAMA, she has since decided after multiple campus visits that Clemson is her first choice. Here comes the quandary. Bama is offering a full tuition scholarship but is 10 hours away, while Clemson is only offering 10K, leaving her with 32K per year to pay but is 5 hours away. We can pay the living expenses at Bama or $20K toward the $32. She has had so many people tell her not to worry about the student loans because if she graduates from Clemson she can make them up easily but we are worried about her graduating with $48K in undergrad debt versus maybe none. Is Clemson that better an option. She constantly talks about their networking, internships, and other possibilities. Also she is vacillating between engineering and applied math.
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