Just visited UCSB and Cal Poly SLO and love them both. You are all right that it’s not worth it to go out of state. DS probably got in UCSB ME (invite to Chancellor’s reception). Yesterday got admitted to UCI MAE with honor. I understand all your suggestions about ME. If I can convince him to switch from MAE to ME, he will have only UCSB and Cal left if he got in both as even switching majors in the engineering college is hard, so I heard…