<p>@BrownParent Oh, I’m pretty sure it would be. The OP says $33,767 is the cost of “one year tuition” and that is a lot more than the $12,862 for a UC or $5,472 for a CSU. Since she’s a transfer, likely living off campus, the housing cost difference between USC, UCLA or Cal State LA would be negligible. If the number she quoted for USC includes tuition AND housing, she’d still be saving quite a bit going to a UC. I know my D (California resident) was accepted into 3 UC’s and was quoted tuition+housing+fees+ living expenses between 25K and 31K… and those were living on campus (which is more expensive) and campuses where the housing is the most expensive in the system. The one state school she applied to quoted 19K total.</p>
<p>Articulation Agreements are only as good as the counselling a student is getting. In California, the best route for public is to do the intersegmental transfer curriculum for which the CA publics will take as completion of GE’s (even if the college doesn’t have a similar class.) However, I haven’t come across a private college in CA that accepts this (my daughter earned this while in high school but is going to a private school out-of-state that doesn’t accept it.) Yes, there are several private schools that have articulation agreements with the CC’s but the student often has to be zero’d in on their private school of choice in order to make all the right decisions for THAT campus. Now, I don’t know if the OP did this or not. That’s why I suggested she look into it. </p>