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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad someone started this thread. I'm the poster who started the thread about my DD wanting to attend school in California.

She's not interested in a big school where there are hundreds of students in a class, but more of a "community" feel on campus.

Are there any medium sized schools with diversity that one could recommend? [/quote]

For what major or interests? That makes a significant difference.[/quote]

Business or Public Health[/quote]

What is your budget? And what specifically attracts her to California? Is she a Southern California type or a Northern California type?

Berkeley and UCLA both have excellent public health programs. I don't know anything about their business schools, however.

You probably know there are at least three top-notch public health programs relatively near here: Hopkins, UNC and Emory. [/quote]

Sorry, I just realized I didn't address any of your size and community-feel issues. Any of the UC or CSU campuses is going to have [b]very large classes at the undergraduate level[/b]. You could look at private schools such as Santa Clara, which has a public health program (I don't know how well regarded it is). There are some great small liberal arts and STEM colleges in California but I don't know which ones offer public health degrees. Truly if I wanted the kind of thing your DD mentioned I would consider Hopkins/UNC/Emory, even though they aren't in California![/quote]

Not necessarily large classes...I went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and only had a few large auditorium type classes.  Most were under 30 students per class (but side effect was that if you had a low registration priority it was really hard to get into classes -- that's when you planned on taking off a couple quarters to do an internship).

For public health, you might look at Cal State Chico.  I know it has a strong nursing program so it might also have public health and it's a beautiful campus in a very cute town.  Yes, it has a "party school" reputation but my brother went there and he didn't think it was really any different than others.  Chico is in Northern CA, a bit north of Sacramento.

FWIW, Cal Poly SLO has an excellent business program (my major) but (unless things have changed a lot) you won't be able to get into it as an out-of-state student.  As PPs noted, the mission of the Cal State system is to educate Cal State residents and as such any graduate of a CA high school who meets basic requirements is supposed to be able to get a spot at a Cal State, although not the campus of their choice.  Competitive programs in the Cal State system have to give priority to CA residents.  Cal Poly is the most competitive of the Cal State's and thus has virtually no OOS students.  While I was there I only knew one person from OOS and he at least had a parent who lived in CA (not sure how he worked the system).  I'd assume that would also be the case at all of the best Cal States so as an OOS student, you'd likely have a better shot at getting into one of the top UCs.  One downside of this is that the reputation of the best Cal States isn't very well known outside of CA so if that matters to you the reputation isn't as portable.  It hasn't been an issue at all for my career but I suppose it matters in some fields.[/quote]

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