What's up with Santa Clara University?

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Anonymous wrote:Was a safety for my student last year. Not a STEM kid. My student was accepted RD with 7500/year merit. 3.9 UW and 4.3 W with high rigor in DCPS and with a 1490 SAT (near perfect verbal). Just weighing in to say they give merit but not much. My student is elsewhere.

I am in DC but a CA native and agree it is well regarded in CA, but below Stanford, Cal,! UCLA and USC. Great location for internships.

OMG! don't listen to this person. I'm a californian of 40 years. It is NOT well regarded "but below Stanford". nononono. party school

You must not be in Silicon Valley. I am and am a lifelong Californian. It is very well-regarded here, which is why it has such good job placement.

It also isn’t remotely a party school. Weird comment.

It is a regional school. Very few people outside CA have heard of it

I guess I'm one of the very few!

My midwestern town sends quite a few kids there, UMC area with large catholic population

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Anonymous wrote:Beautiful campus. Gorgeous new STEM building.

Located in Silicon Valley near internships. Alums in various positions at Silicon Valley employers.

Offers EA with a result in Dec. Known for deferring high stats applicants if they're not convinced the student is very interested.

Jesuit.

Currently requires students to have either had three doses of the original COVID vaccine or one dose of the latest formulation and does not grant exemptions. School is subject to a lawsuit.

Nobody wants to hear from an anti-vaxxer. We want to hear from normal people.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by the anti-vax stuff here.

Yea me too. Somebody needs psychiatric help.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by the anti-vax stuff here.

Meh, I’m not the PP but my kid got rushed to a pediatric cardiologist with potential myocarditis after the last booster and has been told to not get another booster by multiple doctors, including a well-known pediatric cardiologist. I have to look for schools where there is no vaccine mandate.

I’m very pro-vaccine and am fully vaccinated myself but this is a real issue for some of us.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t get the PPs who are fixated on trashing the school? Maybe they resent the connection the school has to high tech or something. Idk. Weirdly aggressive posters, in any event.

In any event, it’s a solid school with a very strong pipeline to high tech and strong STEM offerings. The campus itself is pretty enough but the area around it is pretty boring and tedious. Housing nearby is very expensive. It isn’t a party school in part because there really isn’t any place to party, for better or worse. It’s become a lot more competitive in recent years so while it offers merit aid, the packages are smaller. It’s a Catholic school and there is a religious presence on campus.

One specific note if applicable: it has an excellent track record for Latino graduates in STEM. It has many years of taking in bright Latino first-gen students and placing them well in STEM graduate school. The school recruits specifically for this cohort and has a record of success in this that far exceeds most other STEM programs, and they also pushed this initiative long before diversity became a buzzword. So, if your child is a first-gen Latino interested in STEM, it would be a welcoming place.

I did not know this but find it very uplifting. I shouldn’t be surprised because it falls in line with the Jesuit mission to educate. Francisco Jimenez, who wrote “The Circuit,” was educated there and is a professor emeritus.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by the anti-vax stuff here.

Anti mandate! I beg to differ

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I live in SV and have an 8th grader. I was recently looking at the matriculation data for his future HS and was surprised how many kids went to SCU. It’s a fairly large HS with a diverse student body (affluent whites and Asians and less affluent or even first Gen Latinos) so I am not sure what kind of kids go there.
I think it’s one of the few SV schools with no or little agenda, and many people appreciate it.
I have a feeling that it’s underrated and will have more and more relatively high stats but unhooked kids who are rejected by the progressive UC system/better CSUs and don’t want to go be in the boonies for a less well regarded UCs or CSUs.

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Anonymous wrote:Anti-semitic as all get out, like the rest of the CA schools, just fyi.

My neighbor’ DD attends SCU and is Jewish. They’ve said only positive things about the whole experience.

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My DD was accepted EA and received 19k merit Bronco award. That kind of merit might bring costs down to U Mich OOS OP? I work for a company that has an office in SV. They hire a lot of SCU grads. Like a PP said it’s probably similar to Villanova level but it’s proximity to SV gives it an advantage. For my kid it was a nice safety school to add to the mix.

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can I hear what stats get the 19k award?

I wonder if it's all stats or more a mix of things like stats + essay + jesuit hs + geo diversity... or some mix kinda thing

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Anonymous wrote:can I hear what stats get the 19k award?

I wonder if it's all stats or more a mix of things like stats + essay + jesuit hs + geo diversity... or some mix kinda thing

I'm not PP but when my student applied with 36 ACT and 3.87 GPA (UW from Big 3) - they got only $1500/yr merit in EA.

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Anonymous wrote:Son is a straight-A STEM kid, loves sports and California. Otherwise pretty ordinary, doesn't have great extra-curriculars aside from team sports. He's planning to study engineering or physics and is applying to UMD, Michigan, Purdue, and the UC system. He's also interested in Santa Clara because it's in CA and easy to get into. I don't know anything about it, and it's one of the priciest schools he's applying to. We're trying to discourage privates as we can't afford most of them. Any thoughts on whether it's worth the cost? Do they give merit aid? What kind of vibe?

Santa Clara is really no difference in price compared to OOS UC...and even Michigan.

The school is ranked fairly well, has a lovely campus in the heart of Silicon Valley, and often shows up in rankings of grads making the highest $$$s after graduation. Yes, that is mainly due to its location and grads working in Silicon Valley.

Also, it is hard to find 6,000 student schools (at least we found that difficult) that are not Ivy schools, but decently ranked. Lots of the 2,000 kid SLACs and then the large state schools. It is a nice size.

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This whole thread is bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:can I hear what stats get the 19k award?

I wonder if it's all stats or more a mix of things like stats + essay + jesuit hs + geo diversity... or some mix kinda thing

33 ACT, 4.7W GPA, IBDP, applied from an international school in UK, truly nothing spectacular in ECs.... two years ago

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by the anti-vax stuff here.

Yea me too. Somebody needs psychiatric help.

Anti-mandate does not = anti-vax.

- NP