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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS (Jr) is interested in West coast and I’m not as familiar with smaller/mid sized schools. Just starting the search. His grades are currently As and Bs. He’s not yet sure what his major would be possibly communications. Any experiences out there you can share? Thanks! [/quote]

Californian here. Here are my thoughts, assuming the As and Bs are from a regular school and not one known to have hard grading, I probably forgot a few too.

Reach: Santa Clara, Whitman, Reed (though I would be cautious about sending a kid there personally), Occidental, LMU, Pitzer, Pepperdine.

Target: Puget Sound, Lewis & Clark, USD, USF, Chapman.

Safety: Willamette, St. Mary’s Moraga, Point Loma Nazarene

Gonzaga, Cal Poly Whitman are hard to reach from the east coast.

Random: The newest CSU, Cal State Channel Islands is in a great location and literally everything I hear is positive. The student body isn’t big and the professors are ambitious and dedicated. They provide lots of personal attention. I don’t think it’s for everyone and I definitely would not make it the top of the list, but I think it’s an interesting safety. Would definitely be a safety.  I haven’t included other CSUs because they are much bigger.

Also random: If you have a hippie kid, Evergreen State. But as with Reed, I would not send a kid there.

I would not send a kid to Soka. [/quote]

Oxy is no longer a reach[/quote]

Ignorant. Definitely a reach for a student of OPs profile. [/quote]

Oxy once would have been a reach but no longer. Sadly I know this well as an alum. Also OP’s son wants a communications major- Oxy  have a strong communications major. It has something called Arts & Media. USC (yes, huge, expensive and now difficult to get into) is where a communications major should go[/quote]

Right, you post incessantly about Oxy. Everyone recognizes your posts. Your view is deeply distorted. [/quote]

Can confirm. I was just scrolling through responses to post exactly this.

The context here is not Pomona and USC. Oxy is more selective than LMU, USD and Santa Clara.

My DC is an Oxy alum, this century, and highly recommends it.[/quote]

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