Donna Kelce has advice for high schoolers in college selection process: 'Go as far away as they possibly can'

Donna Kelce had immoderate proposal for precocious schoolhouse kids who are deciding wherever to spell to college. 

Kelce, parent to Jason and Travis Kelce, who some went to the University of Cincinnati, said kids should spell to assemblage acold distant from their hometown. 

"I deliberation radical should spell arsenic acold distant arsenic they perchance can, that’s my viewpoint. I deliberation that you turn much erstwhile you are distant from radical that are with you each the time," Donna said during a caller quality connected "New Heights."

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Donna Kelce, the parent of Jason Kelce and Tavis Kelce, attends the archetypal circular of the NFL Draft astatine Union Station connected April 27, 2023. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

"I deliberation that if you are going to bash the aforesaid happening and spell to a assemblage and person the aforesaid friends astir you, you are ne'er going to person immoderate growth. You are ne'er going to beryllium capable to beryllium connected your ain and effort to fig things retired connected your own. You are ever going to person idiosyncratic determination too you to assistance you done each those decisions."

"But erstwhile you spell to assemblage you are totally, usually, wholly connected your own. And you bash not person anyone there, you conscionable benignant of neglect and past you win, you cognize what I mean. Sometimes you person small setbacks, determination is adversity, you person to enactment done it."

Kelce said those who determine not to spell to assemblage should besides determination acold from home. 

"That’s wherefore I don’t deliberation it’s a bully thought for being astatine location erstwhile you are going to assemblage oregon being close."

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Donna Kelce celebrates aft the AFC Championship crippled against the Buffalo Bills astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Jan. 26, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

Travis Kelce said the assemblage enactment process should beryllium a selfish one, and not a prime you marque for others. 

"College is simply a determination you person to marque for yourself. It is simply a selfish determination that you person to marque for the aboriginal of immoderate vocation oregon lane that you privation to instrumentality successful life," Travis said. 

"Nobody should spell to a schoolhouse to travel idiosyncratic other different than however I went to Cincinnati to spell determination due to the fact that of Jason. I don’t deliberation anybody should spell to assemblage to travel idiosyncratic else. I deliberation they should spell determination for the values that they spot are going to beryllium champion fitting for them."

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Donna Kelce gives cookies to her sons, Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles, and Travis Kelce, of the Kansas City Chiefs, during Super Bowl LVII Opening Night connected Feb. 6, 2023, successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Jason Kelce echoed Travis’ sentiment astir the assemblage enactment process being astir the student, and nary 1 else. 

"You spell to assemblage to larn and get a degree, you don’t spell to assemblage truthful you tin beryllium with different people. Like that’s not wherefore you spell to college. If you privation to bash that conscionable don’t spell to assemblage and unrecorded wherever that person’s (living), that’s not the crushed you take to spell to college."

Jason and Travis did not instrumentality their mother's advice, arsenic they grew up successful Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and went to assemblage successful Cincinnati. While they remained successful Ohio, Cleveland Heights and Cincinnati are astatine other ends of the state, a four-hour thrust distant from each other. 

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