<p>JL50ish and usc-ucla-dad, thanks a lot for your replies.
D is unsure about her major but sometimes she mentions environmental science or business. D likes urban big cities and medium to large campus. By the way, D will be taking the Math II subject test and History.
I run the calculator numbers and we don’t qualify for need based aid, so the only option left is merit money. D doesn’t have high SAT scores or super high GPA so I worry that she won’t get merit aid. As many parents in this forum we were hit hard by the stock market, so it seems that a public college in CA is the best option for D. Unless, we find a good private college that would give my D decent amount of merit aid, but again she doesn’t have stellar sat/grades. So, at this point i think that D best alternative is a UC or SLO, or are there any other alternatives that would be a good combination of quality education and affordable tuition/living expenses given my D stats?
again, thanks so much.</p>