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Location, location, location. Part-time MBA and JD programs at Santa Clara are great. Especially for the those, who work in South Bay area. 
Ya, why send your student to a friendly, beautiful, and safe school, although it isn’t cheap since it is a private university. I would send mine to SCU ahead of UCB any day for so many reasons. Students from a couple dozen countries, and half of this year’s class are from out of state according to admissions so don’t understand the local children comment. With more than 70% of classes being under 30 students it sounds pretty good if you can afford it, but certainly not everyone can.
“Local school for children, who are not made for Stanford/Berkeley, too rich to go to San Jose, too sheltered to move away from their parents.”
Gee, thumper’s kid came from the East Coast and my niece came from Chicago. They certainly weren’t local.
And “not made for Stanford/Berkeley”! The shame! The horror! Can you IMAGINE having such a lesser creature in your household? On second thought, that’s maybe why our kids traveled such a distance to go there - the family shame was more than we could bear, so they were banished.
Huh? 32% are from 37 other states, and 23 countries.
But I totally agree – no need to send a kid to a “friendly” school. What parent would want to do that? (sarcasm)
My Mennonite SIL went to Santa Clara many years ago and never had an issues with the fact that it is a Catholic university. Most religious schools (with the exception of hardcore places like Liberty) seem to be more respectful of religion in general even than secular schools, where being a person of faith (any faith) can be seen as a liability. I know Christians at Brandeis (a Jewish school) and Muslims at Boston College (Jesuit) who would agree.
@mcat2, BC is Jesuit. BU used to be Methodist, but is now unaffiliated (or is perhaps loosely affiliated.)
But how many of the students are “local”? My freshman nephew is from New Jersey. His roommate is from San Diego, which is in-state, but nobody who knows California would say that San Diego, seven and a half hours by car from Santa Clara, is “local.”
Really? Tell that to the 40% or,so who,are from other states…or even those from CA who are not from the Bay Area.
I consider Santa Clara University a very good school - I gave them 4 stars in my rating system. Certainly a very solid, reputable university from which to obtain a degree.
Oh, and Women’s World Cup winner Julie Johnston is a graduate. Clearly not a bad school at all 
Brandi Chastain was no slouch either in soccer back at you @LBad96.
And for the ladies, Shemar Moore ain’t so bad either.
I believe SCU has had 2 Rhodes Scholars in the past 7 years.
@CADREAMIN ayyyy Brandi!!! Love her haha
And we are not supposed to talk politics…so I won’t mention names…but SCU is the school of a number of prominent public figures as well.
SCU sounds like a great school. Why do you think it is not too selective with 50% acceptance rate? Not too many apply?
It is selective. The school has a higher average ACT at 29 than UCLA at 28. That is a strong average. It looks like average SATs are in the mid 1900’s again that is strong.
Most if not all Catholic schools have higher admit rates than similar secular schools because of the religious aspect. Not too many non-catholics apply. Asian students very rarely.
It’s not a question of Santa Clara getting so few applications. It gets about 15,000 applications per year. That’s only a few thousand less than MIT. The issue is its yield – only one out of every six applicants accepted actually enrolls, so they have to accept over 7,000 students to fill the class. I think what that means is that (a) they are not accepting 50% of the class, or anything close to that, ED, and (b) the kind of students they accept tend to be strong students who have lots of other options, like UCs and CSUs.
Less than half of the student body is from a Catholic background, so actually a lot of non-Catholics apply. But as JHS noted, Santa Clara is going to lose a lot of admitted students to the UCs.
We were at the Santa Clara admissions presentation two months ago. Out of the 15 or so groups at the presentation, about half were from out of state. From the way the admissions rep talked, it seemed that they saw UC Berkeley as their main competition. He mentioned several times how Santa Clara differed from Berkeley.
As noted upstream…my DD is a SCU graduate. She also,worked in undergrad admissions for 3 1/2 years. About half of the students are from OOS. There are a large number from Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. But they have good representation from a number of states.
I never was under the impression that they were “competing” with Cal. It’s a completely different school…completely. Cal is a large research university. SCU is a master university…and much smaller. Very different personalities in the schools.