This post is kind of long and I apologize if it doesn't make a lot of sense but I'll do my best.
I have a family I am trying to turn into a dynasty: a single mother, who has seven kids--three young adults (two males one female), one teen (female), one child (female), and two toddlers (female and male). I've raised them over the course of two weeks, putting in a lot of effort and figuring out how I wanted to play.
Basically, I've invested a lot of effort into this save. When the kids became young adults I have them get jobs and work on skills to get full scholarships to university, which they all now have--the girl for Fine Arts, one boy for Science, and the other boy for Technology. It was great.
Problem is, when I go to send them all to university, I get this weird screen. The happiness bar is blue, I have no simoleons (had like 40,000 back home), the Sim panels are non-existent, and I can't open the screen to see moodlets, needs, relationship panels, etc.
I thought the game was corrupted, went insane trying to fix it, still didn't work, then changed active families and tried switching back. The first time, the Sims panels showed the family I'd switched from even though I was playing a different family. When i tried again, everything was fine. i even sent one of the two girls to university, and boom! It worked fine, no problem. Yet everything I try to send the three young adults to university from my primary family, it won't work. I'm really annoyed but don't want to restart anything (they all have relationships with kids in town, and restarting that would be a pain. I'm playing a "no-testing-cheats" run and have fought for what these sims have).
Can someone help me? This is really irritating. And it doesn't affect any other visiting/vacation locations! Egypt, China, and France are fine, just not university, and only for the family i created.