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OP, your son has an impressive GPA and has shown that he is academically strong.
I'm certainly in the camp of most here, i.e. it is important to get a degree that leads to a good job, that where you go to graduate school is more important than the undergraduate degree (for those fields that require a graduate degree), that community college can be a great way to lower costs (especially if your child can live at home and that time can be used to more fully mature).
Having said that, in reading the posts here I also get the feeling that the community advice here is not typical of what one would get in a more generalized setting. This community has (at least on average) a much more practical, dare I say it LBYM mentality than the general population. I'd bet that your same post in some other place would result in responses that are much more oriented to the "Let your son pursue his dream" kind of response. Maybe we here are just too practical.
I'm certainly in the camp of most here, i.e. it is important to get a degree that leads to a good job, that where you go to graduate school is more important than the undergraduate degree (for those fields that require a graduate degree), that community college can be a great way to lower costs (especially if your child can live at home and that time can be used to more fully mature).
Having said that, in reading the posts here I also get the feeling that the community advice here is not typical of what one would get in a more generalized setting. This community has (at least on average) a much more practical, dare I say it LBYM mentality than the general population. I'd bet that your same post in some other place would result in responses that are much more oriented to the "Let your son pursue his dream" kind of response. Maybe we here are just too practical.