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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I grew up in Arizona. I knew lots of people who went to ASU and U of A. My best friend's daughter is at U of A. She loves it.

I am somewhat skeptical of the idea of "neighboring states as a better launching pad for CA jobs than staying in VA." People who go to Arizona schools mostly want jobs in Arizona. I don't think AZ schools give you any advantage, relative to any other non-California state, for getting jobs in California.

What I think you should look at is the Cal State system. [b]Some of them are in roughly the same category as U of A in terms of price and selectivity[/b]. (Some of them are even cheaper than U of A, as far as I can tell.) San Diego State, [b]Cal State Long Beach, Cal State LA, Cal Poly Pomona[/b] - I work for an engineering company that has thousands of employees in southern California, and we definitely hire people from these schools.[/quote]
I am from Los Angeles. Lol, absolutely not. [/quote]
+1 sorry, but this is terrible advice. Do not listen to it. [/quote]

You two are not paying attention to the OP's parameters. [b]Her kid does not have the grades/scores or the money to go to a top-drawer school. She is looking for an equivalent to the University of Arizona.[/b] Those schools are it.

Also, I lived in LA and my company is based there, and I can tell you grads from those schools are absolutely getting jobs if they have STEM degrees.

We have company VPs who graduated from CSULB and San Diego State. They'd be sad to hear your low opinion of their alma maters. But they'd have their huge salaries to console them.[/quote]
OP here. NO, that is not true. Please stop making things up. My son has excellent grades, he has a 3.85 unweighted GPA and a 32 ACT. We can afford approximately $35-$40k/year for college. He is considering Arizona because he would qualify for large amounts of merit aid that makes it fit within our budget, and satisfies his interest in attending school in a different region of the country. [/quote]

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