Help planning CA visits

[Lindagaf]

I suggest you start with this thread, as many of these colleges are mentioned.

Help with College Tour planning - California Edition

Correct that D23 is not interested in the UCs, great schools but not for D23. The only one we might tour is UCLA and that wouldn’t be to check out the school as a possible application but only to see it as its own thing; a piece of sightseeing if you will. D23 did consider Pepperdine and it was on her list for a while but it recently dropped off. Cost constraint on that one; it was hard to see how it would come in at the budget we have determined. We decided not to tour it, why set up the chance to fall in love with the campus if it isn’t going to work out money wise? As for all the cautions regarding our San Francisco portion of the trip, first thank you to everyone who has commented on that. I greatly appreciate the kindness of those who want to make sure we aren’t setting ourselves up for disappointment or disbelief when it comes to the distance of the schools from SF. I did have a fairly good idea of that issue before we started (hence my saying it was a generous description…