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<p>You may want to ask them about expensive private schools in California (e.g. Stanford, USC) and lower cost distant schools (like Minnesota, Virginia Tech, and NCSU, whose list price out-of-state costs of attendance are similar to UC list price in-state costs of attendance – or even Alabama if you have the stats for the automatic full tuition scholarship). Then you can tell if it is really about distance, or really about cost.</p>