Is it possible to tour both schools in the same day? I’m not sure how far they are from one another and also what the traffic will be like. Thanks.
The drive should be about 45-60 minutes with light traffic. If there is an accident or it is rush hour, it can get much longer. If you could do one tour at 10 a.m. and the other in the afternoon, you should be OK. Re: traffic patterns, USC is on the edge of downtown, so traffic is heavy going there in the morning. LMU is in the area of LAX and traffic is heavy going in that direction from downtown in the evening.
Thanks @bookguy. We are doing this as a quick trip. Flying down the night before. Touring LMU at 10 and USC at 2:30. Then flying out at night.
Just use google maps to check the traffic every half hour or so. An accident on an essential freeway in LA can have a huge ripple effect.
Given the unsteady traffic, you should book the earliest morning tour for one school and on that same day, the latest afternoon tour for the other school. Twice recently within the past 2 months, around 10/11 AM on a weekday morning, traffic was very heavy with pockets of stop and go when I was driving from Rosemead (east of LA) to the USC campus area and then to LA airport (LAX), Traffic appears to have gotten bad in the LA area the past few years because the economy has been good in CA. Always allow yourself ample time to travel in the LA area.
We’ve had a change of plans. We are now staying an additional day and going to Disneyland. Luckily I hadn’t booked return flights yet. Southwest is having great prices now between NorCal and SoCal.