<p>From this year’s undergraduate bulletin:</p>
<p>[Santa</a> Clara University Undergraduate Bulletin - School of Engineering](<a href=“http://www.scu.edu/academics/bulletins/undergraduate/05-01.cfm]Santa”>http://www.scu.edu/academics/bulletins/undergraduate/05-01.cfm)</p>
<p>As an Engineering student he can satisfy the SCU graduation requirement with 2 years of <em>high school</em> level FL. </p>
<p>If he switches out and into a different major that requires FL at the college level, at SCU he can do Spanish or start a “new” language. However, if he’s already done four years of HS Spanish, I would think that he’d breeze through a first year sequence of Spanish at college level. He can even start over with Spanish 1 for review and a running start.</p>
<p>That said, as a potential Engineering student at SCU, it seems he has it completely covered already. I suggest he drop it if it is too much of a time commitment right now.</p>
<p>Thank you ^, he has dropped it and seems much more relaxed already. </p>
<p>We visited SCU for the second time and he really liked the student vibe and the campus. Saw the Engineering bldg, did not get a chance to go in though, even saw the Solar house the kids built. Neat!!</p>
<p>I was admitted to the University of Michigan, Tulane, Santa Clara, and hopefully USC. I live in Michigan and Santa Clara’s tuition will be pretty close to free. I was admitted into Leavey. I want to double-major in Econ and Computer Science.</p>
<p>Is Santa Clara worth passing up national prestige? I love the Silicon Valley and the school is beautiful, but are graduates finding success in the job market and being placed in top graduate programs?</p>
<p>I’m just terribly concerned about national reputation - please be honest!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Cougar23 - I think that SCU is a great school and one that is continuing to improve its reputation, but I don’t think it has a very high (national) profile, particularly relative to Michigan and USC. Therefore, I think that doing well at SCU will put in good shape for the Silicon Valley job market, but not as well if you, for example, have your heart set on working on Wall Street right after graduation. Good luck with your decision.</p>
<p>Hey, does anyone know when RD decisions will be released and via what medium? It seems like schools all release their notifications differently.</p>