West coast schools

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PNW native here.

There's Monmouth College in Oregon. Had friends who went there and liked it, but they were Oregonians. Pacific University in Forest Grove (near Portland) might be an option, too.

I'm a Willamette U. grad (for undergrad). Very small campus, you can get across it in five minutes or less. Most of my friends were from California and were usually wealthy. I had some classes junior and senior year with 3-5 people, and I was one of the people. Professors would call on us in class by name. A "huge" class had 25-30 people. It is an environment where you cannot hide. If you didn't do the reading for class, everyone knows. If you skip class, you might see that professor later in the day on campus. Where were you? That isn't for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:DS (Jr) is interested in West coast and I’m not as familiar with smaller/mid sized schools. Just starting the search. His grades are currently As and Bs. He’s not yet sure what his major would be possibly communications. Any experiences out there you can share? Thanks!

Californian here. Here are my thoughts, assuming the As and Bs are from a regular school and not one known to have hard grading, I probably forgot a few too.

Reach: Santa Clara, Whitman, Reed (though I would be cautious about sending a kid there personally), Occidental, LMU, Pitzer, Pepperdine.

Target: Puget Sound, Lewis & Clark, USD, USF, Chapman.

Safety: Willamette, St. Mary’s Moraga, Point Loma Nazarene

Gonzaga, Cal Poly Whitman are hard to reach from the east coast.

Random: The newest CSU, Cal State Channel Islands is in a great location and literally everything I hear is positive. The student body isn’t big and the professors are ambitious and dedicated. They provide lots of personal attention. I don’t think it’s for everyone and I definitely would not make it the top of the list, but I think it’s an interesting safety. Would definitely be a safety. I haven’t included other CSUs because they are much bigger.

Also random: If you have a hippie kid, Evergreen State. But as with Reed, I would not send a kid there.

I would not send a kid to Soka.

Oxy is no longer a reach

Ignorant. Definitely a reach for a student of OPs profile.

Oxy once would have been a reach but no longer. Sadly I know this well as an alum. Also OP’s son wants a communications major- Oxy have a strong communications major. It has something called Arts & Media. USC (yes, huge, expensive and now difficult to get into) is where a communications major should go

Right, you post incessantly about Oxy. Everyone recognizes your posts. Your view is deeply distorted.

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Anonymous wrote:DS (Jr) is interested in West coast and I’m not as familiar with smaller/mid sized schools. Just starting the search. His grades are currently As and Bs. He’s not yet sure what his major would be possibly communications. Any experiences out there you can share? Thanks!

Californian here. Here are my thoughts, assuming the As and Bs are from a regular school and not one known to have hard grading, I probably forgot a few too.

Reach: Santa Clara, Whitman, Reed (though I would be cautious about sending a kid there personally), Occidental, LMU, Pitzer, Pepperdine.

Target: Puget Sound, Lewis & Clark, USD, USF, Chapman.

Safety: Willamette, St. Mary’s Moraga, Point Loma Nazarene

Gonzaga, Cal Poly Whitman are hard to reach from the east coast.

Random: The newest CSU, Cal State Channel Islands is in a great location and literally everything I hear is positive. The student body isn’t big and the professors are ambitious and dedicated. They provide lots of personal attention. I don’t think it’s for everyone and I definitely would not make it the top of the list, but I think it’s an interesting safety. Would definitely be a safety. I haven’t included other CSUs because they are much bigger.

Also random: If you have a hippie kid, Evergreen State. But as with Reed, I would not send a kid there.

I would not send a kid to Soka.

Oxy is no longer a reach

Ignorant. Definitely a reach for a student of OPs profile.

Oxy once would have been a reach but no longer. Sadly I know this well as an alum. Also OP’s son wants a communications major- Oxy have a strong communications major. It has something called Arts & Media. USC (yes, huge, expensive and now difficult to get into) is where a communications major should go

Right, you post incessantly about Oxy. Everyone recognizes your posts. Your view is deeply distorted.

Can confirm. I was just scrolling through responses to post exactly this.

The context here is not Pomona and USC. Oxy is more selective than LMU, USD and Santa Clara.

My DC is an Oxy alum, this century, and highly recommends it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PNW native here.

There's Monmouth College in Oregon. Had friends who went there and liked it, but they were Oregonians. Pacific University in Forest Grove (near Portland) might be an option, too.

I'm a Willamette U. grad (for undergrad). Very small campus, you can get across it in five minutes or less. Most of my friends were from California and were usually wealthy. I had some classes junior and senior year with 3-5 people, and I was one of the people. Professors would call on us in class by name. A "huge" class had 25-30 people. It is an environment where you cannot hide. If you didn't do the reading for class, everyone knows. If you skip class, you might see that professor later in the day on campus. Where were you? That isn't for everyone.

Willamette is great!

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university of Denver. It’s not on the west coast obviously but not east coast or Midwest. Merit available too

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Anonymous wrote:PNW native here.

There's Monmouth College in Oregon. Had friends who went there and liked it, but they were Oregonians. Pacific University in Forest Grove (near Portland) might be an option, too.

I'm a Willamette U. grad (for undergrad). Very small campus, you can get across it in five minutes or less. Most of my friends were from California and were usually wealthy. I had some classes junior and senior year with 3-5 people, and I was one of the people. Professors would call on us in class by name. A "huge" class had 25-30 people. It is an environment where you cannot hide. If you didn't do the reading for class, everyone knows. If you skip class, you might see that professor later in the day on campus. Where were you? That isn't for everyone.

Willamette is great!

Strongly agree! Nice & smart kids, beautiful campus, dedicated professors, even a law school & business school if you want to take a course or two or get a 3/3 or 3/2 degree.
--Willamette professor