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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid wants, and I quote, "cold and rainy" and is into STEM. Doing a lot of CS in high school, but not sure he wants to major in that. So, obviously we are thinking about Pacific Northwest schools, but I also can't see spending that much on a state school on the literal other side of the country. Yes. You would have access to internships at a lot of tech companies. But there are also a lot of tech companies with big offices/presences in other areas of the country (hello new giant Amazon complex). So, I admit that while I've heard of the school, there is nothing that really makes me want to look MORE at it. Maybe that's a mistake. Honestly, it seems like most of the top STEM schools on the West Coast are in CA and not Washington or Oregon....but I admit that I'm a Northeast person, so I'm not really up on it. My kid is only a Sophomore, so I'm just kind of looking around for him right now and asking him to think about the kinds of schools he wants, location, size, etc....[/quote]

Paying OOS costs will be insane for any out-of-state flagship school. Would you happily send your kid to Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, or UC Irvine? Those all have have the same high cost if he's an OOS.

Flight times:
DCA-LAX: 5h55m
DCA-SFO: 6h14m
DCA-SEA: 6h04m

I don't buy the "distance" argument. You're either cool with your kid attending school on the West Coast....or you're not. Seattle is the same distance from DC as it is from SF or LA.[/quote]

Yes to Berkeley and no to the others just honestly because at this point I know so little about West Coast schools. I have looked at Reed, only because my kid is quirky, into physics (now), and a close friend went there. I also know of Harvey Mudd, but I admit I really don't understand the whole Claremont colleges thing. I'm not sure my kid would do well at any really big school, as he's a major introvert. [/quote]

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