this is the part of cd that sickens me, listening to these bright energetic kids that are so eager and smart, our daughter just graduated college, and if she had cd I certainly understand your guys plight it really must be scarry, the one alternative is online edu. I know there is nothing like college life, my daughter would have been bummed to not have lived on campus as her freshman year, she met life long friends that she wouldn't have met if she were online, but maybe you guys can do both, I think your chosen universities will work with you guys, evan your professors would understand, our daughter came home in dec. and I was helping do a mapping project,(history major) and while we were making this map big map of california out of leaves, she went online and was skypping her mapping class, it was really cool, because we were set up on the living room floor and skypping at the same time, so you are lucky that you have that option. another words try to make chiken salad out of chicken ****, you guys can do it.