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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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

It’s a bizarre suggestion, ignore.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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[/quote]

I looked into it and it seems like the community colleges have very limited housing: Santa Barbara City College has just one building and it isn't really a dorm, so I would think kids who don't get into that building have to find other $$$ housing. Then cost of studies is over 30k for OOS. I think it might be convoluted to do that if we could just do a cheaper Cal State for just a little more money and with more of a college experience with on campus housing.
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