<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I've been looking around pretty much the entire country for schools, and I'm interested to see if anybody knows of any Northern California schools. I'm interested in possibly going to the Pacific Northwest, but I thought I'd check to see if there was anything in California that wasn't a UC or in Southern Cal. Thanks!</p>
<p>Stanford University</p>
<p>I have no chance of getting into Stanford. Anywhere else?</p>
<p>University of the Pacific... I don't know anything about it, but I love the name.</p>
<p>u of pacific?</p>
<p>ilya
<a href="http://www.collegecircles.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegecircles.com</a></p>
<p>Santa Clara and USF are nice but religious. I can't really think of many other schools except for cal states.</p>
<p>Pacific is a fine school, complete with Ivy walls. Stockton ain't much, but the campus is nice. We have Jewish friends at Santa Clara and they love it, so it's not too religious. Also, Mills College (female), & St. Mary's...</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone!</p>
<p>University of San Francisco?</p>
<p>Excluding community colleges, Northern California schools include:</p>
<p>Alliant International University
Bethany College
California College of the Arts
Cal Maritime (CSU)
Cogswell Polytechnical College
CSU Chico
CSU East Bay
CSU Sacramento
Dominican University of California
Golden Gate University
Holy Names University
Humboldt State University (CSU)
John F. Kennedy University
Menlo College
Mills College (women only?)
New College of California
Notre Dame de Namur University
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
Pacific Union College
Patten University
Saint Mary's College of California
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco State University (CSU)
San Jose State University (CSU)
Santa Clara University
Simpson University
Sonoma State University (CSU)
Stanford University
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Merced
UC San Francisco (graduate school only)
UC Santa Cruz
University of San Francisco</p>
<p>I've never heard of some of these schools and am not sure if this list is 100% accurate. I did a site search for Northern California colleges, and it excluded all CSUs plus some obvious NorCal schools that were erroneously listed as in Central California.</p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.californiacolleges.edu%5B/url%5D">www.californiacolleges.edu</a> for general information about California public and private colleges.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.csumentor.edu%5B/url%5D">www.csumentor.edu</a> for California State U (CSU)
<a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu%5B/url%5D">www.universityofcalifornia.edu</a> for U of California (UC)
<a href="http://www.webcom.com/career/ind_univ.html%5B/url%5D">www.webcom.com/career/ind_univ.html</a>
for independent colleges</p>
<p>WOW! Thank you, I could never seem to find a complete list anywhere. That helps a lot.</p>
<p>Santa Clara is beautiful and a lot like Stanford, environment-wise. I used to live right near St. Mary's and it's a very nice school too. Megan, what exactly are you looking for? Big/small, city/country...?</p>
<p>Smaller to medium in size, between 1,000 and ~10,000. Don't care about locale, really, I could go for urban, suburban or rural. I'd prefer a school with no religious affiliation. I want to get a degree in International Affairs/Relations or possibly something to do with English (not sure yet). My stats are good, but not stellar (3.8 GPA, 31/12 ACT +writing, lots of ec's) and I'd like a place where I'll be challenged but not seen as the stupidest person in the room because I didn't manage above a 4.0 (you can hardly do it in my school, anyway.)</p>
<p>What came up for International Relations on the <a href="http://www.californiacolleges.edu%5B/url%5D">www.californiacolleges.edu</a> are:</p>
<p>Alliant</a> International U with NorCal and SoCal campuses
Claremont</a> McKenna College in Southern California
CSU</a> Chico
CSU</a> East Bay
CSU</a> Long Beach in Southern California
CSU</a> Monterey Bay
Holy</a> Names U
Mills</a> College women only
Occidental</a> College in Southern California
Pitzer</a> College in Southern California
Pomona</a> College in Southern California
San</a> Diego State U in Southern California
San</a> Francisco State U
Scripps</a> College women only in Southern California
UC</a> Davis
Sonoma</a> State U
University of the Pacific
U</a> of Redlands in Southern California
Whittier College in Southern California</p>
<p>University of the Pacific has a really good International Studies program. They've actually got a separate school for it, and the program is the only one in the country that requires you to study abroad! Within the School of International Studies (SIS) at UOP, you can choose to major in International Relations, International Environmental Policy, Global Economic Relations, International and Regional Studies, or a self-designed major.</p>
<p>You can visit the website here: <a href="http://www.uop.edu/sis/index.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.uop.edu/sis/index.asp</a></p>
<p>I have actually been accepted into the SIS, and will probably end up going there next year! I have visited the campus and it's gorgeous, and the people (including the staff) are all very friendly and helpful. The entire school has around 4,000-5,000 people I believe (I'm not completely sure, but the information is easy to find.) UOP is a great university in general - I know people who go there and they love it =) My stats are similar to yours, so I'm sure you'd have no problem being accepted.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Stockton is a horrible, horrible place to live. Really there are only a couple of schools that would be going to in Northern Califronia if you are out of state, because then you would get hit with out of state tuition.</p>
<p>As a Northern Californian, I would only recomomend two colleges for an out of stater, St. Mary's and Santa Clara. UOP is a respected school, but its in Stockton and not worth 4 years of living there. Most of the other schools are public or very medicore privates.</p>
<p>sorry, shagpin, but I strongly disagree. Yes, Stockton is a valley town, but Pacific has a great campus. Several kids left suburban SoCal in the past few years and are extremely happy at UoP.</p>
<p>I am from the valley(Sacramento), go to school in the valley(chico), but Ive never had a good time in stockton. Most people I know who live there hate it.</p>
<p>being a visitor to a cow town (boring, ugly), and being a college student are two different things, IMO. Suggest the OP check out UoP, that all, and talk to students there who appear to love the school. UoP is also somewhat generous with merit money</p>
<p>When you look into the Pacific Northwest, be sure to check out Whitman College in Washington. The school's academics are similar to what you would find at the Claremont schools, and the environment is beautiful, secular and challenging. Your stats would fit in well there, and it's a residential college. The problem with many of the northern CA schools, especially the Cal States, is that many students commute to campus, which dilutes the community feeling on a campus.</p>
<p>Hey- what's wrong with SoCal?? We have the best LACs in the state. :)</p>