Last year, final commitments and enrollments literally strung out until the opening of school in August- I don’t remember now, but most schools final commitment to enroll was May 31st (iirc)… but then it kept being pushed off:
First payment due date @ St John’s was pushed back 2 weeks as well, which kind of irritated me.
Of course, there were extenuating circumstances.
Wow. I didn’t know this. I was at UCLA (I’m assuming by UCs, you mean University of California), and I remember it costing a lot more for out-of-state residents, but I didn’t know about the no-aid thing. Of course this was decades ago. I started during my senior year in high school where I paid half the fulltime student fee – $52.
I thought Kron was saying her grandma was the very young teen mom (i.e. his mom). No?
YES! By all means. Use the Community college to get rid of all the basic classes, and by the end, she will know more about what she wants to be, and if she even wants to continue college.
Then get the best prestige school you can afford for her next two years.
Same thing in all of CA, afaik. Perfectly valid.
My two years- well three since I worked- cost me about $200. CC is more or less free in CA
And yes, people do go to college- 2 year, 4 year, whatever, and sometimes find it is not for them. It happens. Might as well find out locally without breaking the bank.
Yes, ME’s assistant is a up and coming job, also. "Coroner’ is sometimes a medical position, really the ME, sometimes a elected one, sometimes just something the Funeral home director does, it varies a lot by state.
That’s a very good point. I gather that depending on the state the coroner can be almost anything, from an elected official or appointee with no particular qualifications to a qualified medical doctor. So it’s not really a single profession one could aspire to without having specific and definite plans on where one expected to live.
I thought Kron is a woman, who had her daughter at 14.
Wow. I’m really off base!!!
I’m a 40-year-old man-child!
Actually, my mom got pregnant with me at 14. She never finished school (shocking, I know!). I was always a gifted kid, but we were DIRT poor growing up, so I just never really had the background/support for getting into college “the right way”. As a result, I also don’t have that background to assist my kids in doing it, either. I never intended to be a parent, let alone a single dad (very long story, just a mom that doesn’t really want kids and left them with me, their step-dad), so I often just sort of feel like I’m flailing around trying to to the right thing (and failing!).
ETA: Nope, you got it!
Stop beating yourself up RIGHT NOW! You are doing a fine job. Anyone who reads your posts can tell you love those kids and they know you love them, so you’re on the Parenting Honor Roll.
You have all the right instincts and you ask for help and then listen to what is offered. That’s 95%+ of the game.
Don’t make us tell you again.
Phew! I was starting to doubt myself! And I think you sound like a great dad. 
There’s been a lot of contrary advice to your point about CC’s in this thread. But, I’ll address the point of knowing about what they want to do.
You’re often not surrounded by people planning higher education in a CC. A classmate that’s getting an AA so they can get a higher pay rate as a retail manager probably isn’t someone you can bounce career ideas off. Other classmates are like to be aimless recent high school grads.
The socialisation at 4 year schools is important, obviously living in a zoom era sucks. But, I’ve got to think we’re out of it by fall of 2021. If not, there will likely be avenues to defer admission for a year.
Look, only about 1/3 of those who start college finish with a degree.
Why waste $50000 for two years of college then drop out?
And there is plenty of socialization at a two year.
That’s why I stressed going to a 4 year that 1) doesn’t cost you $25k a year (reduced through scholarships and grants and 2) has a high graduation rates. Private schools and state flagships have very high 4 and 6 year graduation rates–The University of Texas has an 87% 6 year graduation rate: Oberlin College is 84%. Creighton College, mentioned earlier, has a 79% graduation rate. Going to a school where graduation is normal and expected is one of the most important things you can do.
ETA: and the graduation rate among students who had straight As in high school is much, much higher.
Actually, my daughter really wants to get out of the middle of the country. She would really like to go to the northwest, especially western Oregon, but is open to going elsewhere that just isn’t a “regressive stronghold” like Wyoming is.
Nitpick: Creighton University. Excellent school and located in a diverse Midwestern city, sports, recreation abound. You can almost walk to the airport to fly home. Several hundred Trump rally attendees recently had to walk back to town after all. Medical school, dental school, law school also.
Oops. Didn’t see the post above but then Omaha isn’t like Idaho or Wyoming. We actually elected a Democratic elector for Biden in one of our districts. Cost of living is good here compared to the coasts and there is more to do to chose from than you could ever have time to do.
My wife, both my daughters and I went to college beyond easy driving distance from home. It worked out great in all cases. Dorms are a good half step to independence, and being in a dorm builds friendships far faster than living at home.
When my wife and I went communication with our parents was one phone call a week. When my daughters went, they’d call while walking to classes.
So I think your daughter is smart, even if she loved Wyoming.
Today, my daughter got an acceptance letter from one of her top three school choices, the University of Oregon!
She was so happy she burst into tears!
Awww, happy for her! I remember that letter well~53+ years ago.
Congrats to her and her parental units.