Hey Guys
I got a few housing questions:
Are the suites/shared bathroom double rooms in Casa Italiana and McLaughlin Walsh coed or single-gender?
Also, which halls have the least parties?
Question about job/internship prospects for Santa Clara, as son is close to hitting âyesâ for enrollment - what exactly does the school do to help students with job searches/interviews, etc.? Weâll call the career office again this week to drill down on this, but thus far weâve heard fairly general statements about % of grads getting jobs, âgreat opportunities in Silicon Valleyâ, etc. But how is this happening? DH and I have both worked years in SV, and itâs certainly not automatic hiring; SCU has competition from the UCs, SJSU, Stanford, etc. locally and beyond. I hope there is more assistance than just helping students set up LinkedIn pages (as at a lot of schools now) - job fairs and on-campus interviews and maybe faculty referrals would be more what I would expect to back up the hand-waving - any one have actual experience with SCUâs approach? Thanks.
@cocoapie - A single suite is comprised of multiple bedrooms that share a bath, and these are single gender as are their respective bathrooms. But the floors of the building are mixed gender - meaning there are suites of guys and suites of gals on the same floor. But within a suite it is all same gender. Make sense?
@CocoaPie going off of what @CADREAMIN said there are two types of housing in Casa. For first years there are single gender suites comprised of 4 doubles that share a common room and two bathrooms. The other option is a single, but these are not suite style. All the singles in Casa are on a hall only containing single rooms that share a bathroom down the hall. There is both a Male and Female bathroom on this hall, but the floor is co-ed.
McLaughlin Walsh is your standard dorm with double rooms and a bathroom for each gender down the hall. Each floor has a shared kitchen and common room. Next year some floors of Mc-Walsh are going to be divided into males on one side and females on the other half of the floor, while the remaining floors will be co-ed.
In terms of partying all buildings will have people who choose to party. The trends for noise levels of different buildings changes by year for some. I would say from loudest to quietest the dorms are as follows: Swig, Dunne, tied(Mc-Walsh, San Filipo, Campisi), tied (Sobrato, Casa), Casa singles. A small note to make is buildings that are next to streets do get a little more noise from cars driving by than those not next to a street.
But with that also consider how social you want to be. Do you want to have to join clubs to make friends? Do you want to be friends primarily with your roommates? Do you want to walk out of your room and be able to hang out with people in the hall? If you want to hang out with people in the hall Swig, Dunne, Mc-Walsh, Campisi, and San Filipo will be your best bet. Graham is similar, but more people choose to just hang out in their own rooms. Casa and Sobrato are also similar to each other as more people choose to hang out in their suite or room which means you are less likely to meet a lot of people outside of your suite. Casa singles are known as the quietest and least social place to live on campus. Whatever building you end up living in you will end up meeting people no matter where you live as you have to take a two quarter writing class that is assigned with other people that live in your same building.
If you know partying is not for you make sure you donât put Swig as one of your choices on your housing application.
@vschuSCU hello Veronica! Quick question, how does payments work at Santa Clara? It is now 50k tuition per year. How would I pay that off? Will I be billed the beginning of every quarter?(so 3 payments?), or am I able to sign up for a payment plan that will allow me to pay monthly or so? What about summer, is that included in the 50k or is it additional? If so, how much are summer classes?
Thanks!
Have you ever heard of someone taking just two quarters per academic year instead of all three? My financial aid package doesnât cover all three quarters but when applied to just two per year does.
Hi @TJGCHG,
To answer your question about career development, SCU does a lot of those things you mentioned! Our career center helps students fine-tune their LinkedIn pages, but also holds workshops to help students with their resumes and cover letters, as well as hosting practice interviews. On top of that, every quarter they hold job and internship fairs with more than a hundred companies representing different fields, many of which are from the Silicon Valley.
Individual departments at SCU also provide a variety of opportunities for students. Personally, I get about 3-5 emails/month from my department with the sole purpose of giving students the chance assist in research and connect with jobs in the field nearby.
There is also a website dedicated to finding SCU students jobs and internships both on and off campus, called Handshake. The university and companies post jobs/internships to the website, and students can review these and see all of the qualifications necessary and who to contact if theyâre interested.
SCU alumni do a lot to help out current students as well. There is a LinkedIn page specifically for connecting current students with alumni, who are often happy to help out their fellow Broncos.
Hope this helps!
Hi @ngangela,
Most students make three payments a year. One in August, one in December, and one in March (before each quarter begins). Payment plans are available to students, but there is an additional fee affiliated with splitting up the payments. Summer class is not included in the tuition listed, because not all students take summer classes. If students opt in to taking summer classes, the cost is usually ~$600-$700 per unit, and most classes are 4-5 units.
Iâve never heard of someone taking two quarters/year. Iâm not sure if that would be possible because usually the total amount of financial aid per year is evenly distributed for each of the three quarters. I would call the financial office to be sure though!
@vschuSCU Hello Veronica,
I was wondering how Pathway classes work? My major is MIS and it seems like on the pathway page, a few of my major classes can count as a pathway class. Do you guys double count there or I would have to pick a different class to fulfill pathway and another for my major. Basically, can 1 class fulfill two categories?
Hi @ngangela,
Pathways are a way for students to deepen their perspectives of their educational and life experiences. Students are free to choose any pathway that SCU offers, it doesnât have to be something related to their major, it could be another theme that they are passionate about. However, most students pick a pathway that is in line with their major because the classes are sometimes able to âdouble-dipâ. This means that a class would meet a requirement for their major, as well as fulfill one of the four courses required for their pathway.
After students complete 100 units at SCU, and before they petition to graduate, they are asked to connect the courses together through a 2-3 page reflection essay, which will be evaluated by a faculty member.
When do accepted students receive their school emails and all that information?
@CoolSpark, much of the information will be given to you during orientation. I forgot when I received my email, but it was sometime over the summer. Good luck, and welcome to the Bronco family!