<p>Central location for that is probably somewhere in....Alta Dena or Thousand Oaks. UCSB isn't as close to LA as you might think, more like 150miles North. I agree with Kevin, Pepperdine really isn't a school you should be visiting, unless you really enjoyed that Nickelodeon series with Ashley Simpson >_>;; USC and UCLA are 10miles from one another, but you might want to hit SB first since, again, it's the farthest away. Get a hotel far from the big city so it'll be cheaper and you shouldn't find it too hard.</p>