<p>Occidental is beautiful. Great LA networking opportunities.</p>
<p>I know, I just love the mediterranean architecture</p>
<p>A safety if you get rejected from Stanford..go for the classic stanford safety..Berkeley</p>
<p>I don't know what you mean by classic . . . it's actually a relatively recent devopment in history. Perhaps you're forgetting the days of stanford being a school where rich people sent their kids because it was easy to get into. Plenty of stanford applicants, mostly out of state, are rejected from Berkeley every year, and many were in the past.</p>