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I don't disagree. I had investigated several CSU campuses while helping my daughter research options. San Jose State seemed like a really nice place to go to school. San Diego State (in the National Championship game for basketball this year!) and Long Beach State are popular from what I can tell as well. That said, didn't the Cal States just recently announce no one from OOS would be considered? |
I don't agree with the tax thing, but your calls on public higher seems wacky. University of Illinois U-C is a fantastic school with great outcomes and UIUC has been rapidly improving--so two good public schools in-state. I wouldn't put TX anywhere near CA--UT Austin is good sure but below UVA, and no other TX public school breaks the top 50 public schools for such a huge state--GMU is better than UT Dallas! VA is far better than Texas--you've got UVA, WM and VT and then a suite of solid schools beneath. The New England states are very small and have top private schools so they didn't historically invest in them as much. |
Maybe I’m a masochist, but I don’t think MA has horrible taxes? I believe the tax burden is middle of the pack. I agree, in state options are not great. |
I'm aware - I lived there in my teens. I didn't attend UD, but I spent a lot of time there during breaks with my friends who were Blue Hens. I was just saying that there are not many state schools in DE. That's it. I am aware of how small the state is - it isn't known as Small Wonder for nothing. |
+1. Without any hesitation. |
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OK but then your grad school plans go to hell |
I briefly looked at Wyoming for my daughter because it had a program for her that is only available in a few schools in the country and Wyoming’s curriculum was the best of the bunch.
Of course, WY is an incredibly conservative state and it is cold. The university is a little over an hour drive to the CO border, but it just wasn’t worth it in the end |
But, speaking as a Californian, you really don't want your kid going to a Cal STate. You want them to go to a U.C. school and those are getting increasingly difficult to get into. The Cal States won't get you into a good grad school |
But VA doesn't have the second tier (between UC and Community College level) of Cal State schools. So the systems aren't comparable at all. Very few Virginia parents would want their kids to go to Cal Sate schools. That's where the kids who couldn't get into good four year schools go |
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Oh, then they go to the police? |
Or gay |
There are only so many seats available in CA.
I mean, you can always look out of state, like so many others do. I highly doubt you have no shot at grad school from a Cal State campus. Doesn’t Fullerton feed Disney and San Jose feed a lot of the local tech companies? |