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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1776265"]
'Hands off' is probably pretty accurate.  That's not to say they didn't care, but I was a good student (top 10% of class, honor student, strong SAT score, all that good stuff) so they trusted me to make the decision.  If I chose some hippy dippy liberal arts college, they'd probably have stepped in haha but I couldn't think of any other type of college they'd have an issue with outside of financial considerations.  My dad went to the navy instead of college and my mom went to a business college for a few semesters, so they didn't have a whole lot of experience to draw from to guide my decision.

If it's true that TT's mom is steering him away from here, then that's a real shame and it's of my personal opinion that it's not her place to do so.  I have no problem with parents providing opinions on the decision.  Setting a firm limit that he can't attend certain schools because the mother doesn't like something about them, having presumably no more knowledge available to her than TT does, is something else.

Whether or not an 18 year old is referred to as an adult or a kid depends heavily on the circumstances of the topic.  In the case of choosing a college to attend, I'd argue that we're talking about 18 year old adults.  Guide them if they get off track, but let them be the driving force behind the decision.  In this case, money is not really a consideration, so it's TT who has to live with the decision day-to-day, not his mother.
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