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"Now, as parents, you have to think about this as adjustments. There's going to be an adjustment period. No matter what happens, going from high school to college, you have to understand what situation your child might struggle in, what situation your student may thrive in. Once I heard my daughter say that, I realized we should really be looking at smaller schools. I'm glad we did. But that was really kind of the starting point of really narrowing down this discussion."