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[quote=Anonymous]My suggestion would be to look at several paths. If you can get a guaranteed scholarship out of state great but those are difficult to get.

The most economical and guaranteed route for UC would be to do two years or 60 hours of community college and transfer into a UC. Don’t treat high school as well it doesn’t matter because I’m doing the CC path in, learn to work hard and self teach to challenge yourself. Take APs in freshman, sophomore and senior year. With the CC route if he can get his gpa up he can be in the honors program. He’ll go from a 5% chance of getting into UCLA to a 75%. He can also do TAG to UC Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz with just a 3.0.

You can do the same thing for Cal State. If you are in an area where your regional Cal State is good, go there! San Jose State, San Diego State, CAL Poly SLO, Pomona, Fullerton are all good. It is really cheap if you don’t need housing because he can go from home. The drawback to Cal State is that they don’t have the full range of programs. They have areas that are their specialty and very small programs for other areas. Some are very engineering focused, some business, some life sciences etc.

You can also look at the western alliance of universities which offer reciprocal tuition. I think Arizona State is on the list. [/quote]

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