roothog66 posted:CaCO3Girl posted:You know I have never been even close to something like this, so I am going to take the academic discussion side.
WHY doesn't he like school A without baseball? What is it about the school/town/people/classes/dorms? Getting out of college with little to no debt SOUNDS wonderful, but I would take a bit of debt to have a better experience, and college is about the experience, as well as the education. College is where kids start to REALLY grow up, they become their own person. You are saying your son likes the coaches, that is really truly wonderful, but he had to fly to get there which means it's a completely foreign place, where he won't know a soul, and he doesn't like the school. This sounds to me like a disaster for his mental health.
He doesn't HATE the school. He just likes some others more. It's a very, very big school. I was quite surprised actually at the size of the enrollment.
Both schools are far from home. One is much farther than the other.
You may want to get into the exact things he dislikes about the school. While baseball will consume much of his time it won't consume all of his time. If he finds he truly dislikes something basic, like it's a city school and he needs open spaces...well, that's not going to go well. If it's something smaller like the local pizza shop is 20 minutes away and other schools it is only 5 minutes away, then yeah, I'm sure he can live with that.