California schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good suggestions above. Chapman is a good private university - would check them out.

OMG super expensive. my niece went there. Not the best academics. Over $90K a year now. not worth it. https://www.chapman.edu/students/tuition-and-aid/financial-aid/undergraduate/cost-of-attendance.aspx

Chapman is kind of like a west coast Elon (my kid goes to Elon and has friends at Chapman so I have a means of comparison).

People are always comparing Chapman and Elon. Why? How are they similar? Btw, Chapman does not have a good reputation on the west coast.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

Because CA schools are hard to get into oos, and very expensive. For CA going to cc and establishing residency may be your ticket in….and for a fraction of the price. Most UC schools take a larger % of transfers from CC than other state schools. If my kid was looking at a UC school would definitely consider it.

No. You’d encourage them to go to school in their home state, or attend another school you can afford. You would not send an 18 year old across the country to attend a community college. Ridiculous suggestion and nothing OP wrote even indicates her kid is interested in that!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

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+1 I told my DD this. We are originally from CA, and she wants to go back. But, it's oos CA college is too expensive, so we told DD to go locally, and with the money we save, we could help start her out in CA.

Rent/home prices, gas prices, sales tax in CA is insane. You have to factor that in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

Because CA schools are hard to get into oos, and very expensive. For CA going to cc and establishing residency may be your ticket in….and for a fraction of the price. Most UC schools take a larger % of transfers from CC than other state schools. If my kid was looking at a UC school would definitely consider it.

No. You’d encourage them to go to school in their home state, or attend another school you can afford. You would not send an 18 year old across the country to attend a community college. Ridiculous suggestion and nothing OP wrote even indicates her kid is interested in that!

NP here. I knew an 18 yr old who travelled from Kentucky to Santa Monica where she attended the community college (and stayed with an aunt) to do exactly this. It happens. It's not exactly a "Bethesda" thing, which is perhaps why you're so shocked that it would be suggested.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

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Thank you! Yes, after looking into it I think we will definitely apply to SDSU, maybe one more Cal State and look into merit for privates a bit more. Maybe there is a much less selective school that would award her enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good suggestions above. Chapman is a good private university - would check them out.

OMG super expensive. my niece went there. Not the best academics. Over $90K a year now. not worth it. https://www.chapman.edu/students/tuition-and-aid/financial-aid/undergraduate/cost-of-attendance.aspx

Chapman is kind of like a west coast Elon (my kid goes to Elon and has friends at Chapman so I have a means of comparison).

People are always comparing Chapman and Elon. Why? How are they similar? Btw, Chapman does not have a good reputation on the west coast.

I don’t know anything about Elon but I live in Southern California and Chapman has a good reputation. I think the success of its film school has raised its profile across the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

It's 2024 - LMU and USD are about 75 - 100 slots below SDSU in the ratings least favorable to SDSU right now.

[Anonymous]

My DH went to San Jose State University and got a great education and really enjoyed it - especially for CS it's a good option because they are so plugged into silicon valley.

Not sure what the "california" that keeps yelling is prattling on about - your kid won't get into UCLA or something, but SJSU and the like is absolutely doable, even for an out of state student.

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Anonymous wrote:For that price, you could attend on of the better community colleges, e.g. Pasadena City, Glendale, Santa Monica, etc. OOS tuition is around 10k, plus living expenses.

Note: if you were a California resident, tuition is like 1k.

Would it not be weird to do community college from out of state? Is it not mostly local kids?

It’s a bizarre suggestion, ignore.

Not a bizarre suggestion at all. Some California community colleges are really good and have guaranteed pathways to UCs. Community college tuition for out of state would be around 8k. Then I believe UC tuition would still be out of state but you would have saved on the first 2 years.

Exactly. There are many out of state students at some of the more geographically desirable community college like Santa Barbara city college but housing in Santa Barbara is crazy expensive and hard to find.

But then you end up with an associate's degree, and as a non-resident are you guaranteed a transfer spot to a 4-year university in CA the way it works for in state residents? Looking at the SB community college page and it's not clear.

Your kid establishes CA residency after his first year at CC. Upon transferring to a CalState or UC, they would be eligible for in-person tuition assuming they can meet the verification checklist (ie, CA drivers license, car registered in CA, residential lease, kid files taxes in CA, etc.)

https://www.calstate.edu/apply/california-residency-for-tuition-purposes/Pages/new-students.aspx

Not how any of that works. If you arrive in CA to attend CC and pay out-of-state tuition there, you won't get that reversed on transfer. Moving for the purpose of attending school is exactly what the forms are out to identify. Bank accounts, leases and drivers licenses wont help if you've already identified in the system as an out-of-state student.

Under California law, if you have moved to California primarily to attend a California institution of higher learning, then you are not eligible for in-state tuition.

Living in California for 12 months is not an automatic qualification for in-state tuition.
You must prove through official and/or legal documents that you have moved to California permanently and are not merely living in California temporarily while you attend California State University, however long your course of study may take.

Evidence that you are receiving out-of-state financial support in any way, either directly (e.g. tuition payments, parent PLUS loans, etc.) or indirectly (e.g., parent-purchased or co-purchased residences, parent-controlled financial portfolios), will disqualify you from California residency for-tuition-purposes.

[Anonymous]

Don't know if this helps...my high stats DC was accepted to Santa Clara University EA ($2k merit aid/yr) and Occidental RD ($20K merit aid/yr) but they submitted test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't know if this helps...my high stats DC was accepted to Santa Clara University EA ($2k merit aid/yr) and Occidental RD ($20K merit aid/yr) but they submitted test scores.

I'm this PP - but even with this large merit package for Occidental that still doesn't get you below $50K when you include housing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has moved SO far away from OP’s original post. Why are we talking about CA community college.

OP, my best advice is to apply to some CA private schools like LMU or USD (which likely won’t award the merit you’re looking for), plus maybe a few Cal States (like SDSU).

Otherwise, go to college in your home state or elsewhere, and encourage your DD to move to CA post college. That’s what I did and many others I know. I spent my 20s in CA, married, and I’m raising a family here now.

I think it’s important for kids to know that they can STILL move somewhere they dream even if they didn’t attend college there. Good luck!

It's 2024 - LMU and USD are about 75 - 100 slots below SDSU in the ratings least favorable to SDSU right now.

It IS 2024, and the US News rankings for these colleges are:
#93 - LMU
#98 - USD
#105 - SDSU

So I have no idea what PP is referring to in saying LMU and USD are 100 spots lower than SDSU...?

[Anonymous]

Others have provided the good suggestion of applying to a Cal state/ Cal Poly school. For example, San Diego state OoS tuition is 20,170 this year, San Jose State is 19,779, and Cal Poly -San Luis Obispo is 26,970. For comparison, UVa in state tuition is 20,342.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Others have provided the good suggestion of applying to a Cal state/ Cal Poly school. For example, San Diego state OoS tuition is 20,170 this year, San Jose State is 19,779, and Cal Poly -San Luis Obispo is 26,970. For comparison, UVa in state tuition is 20,342.

I would not pay oos for CSU schools.

-CSU grad